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VOL. 2. No. 11. BOMBAY, AUGUST 1881. No. 2t3. &

S ['Eel AI, N O'J'lCI'S. It is cl'i,icnt that. thc TIII':USOI'I1IST will offer to a(ll'crtiscl'R unn811ni ad·

"nllt"ges ill cirelll"tioll. "'0 ""1'0 already subscribers ill Cl'ory part uf India, in Ceylon, HUl"mnh, Chinn, fllIIl 011 the Per-simi Gulf. Uur }lnpct nl:,f) goes to (;rcat Hdtaill flllIl Jrelmnl, FralJce, Spain, 11011:11111, OcrnHlIlY, Norway, HUIlg-lny, Grecce, Hl1:::sin, Au~traJaf-!in, t;outh Africa, the 'VCHt IlI<1ie", alld Nurth and ~ollth America. 'fho following' Ycry modornto rates bal'o ueen ndopted :

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Space i5 ehar:.(c,1 for at thc mtE> of 121illes to the inch. Speci,,1 arrange. ments call be JH:uic foi' large ndrcrtiscmcnts, (lutl for longer [HLll iixec.l periods. t'or further inforlllation alHI contmets fur adl'crtising-, np!,ly to

1IIESSH~. COOPEr. & ('0., A,ircrtbillg' Ageut", 1l0ol;ocllcl'" alld l'uuli,l,el'o, 1I1~",luw Strcet, Fort.,

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'1'0 I:lUBSCRlIlEHS.

The SIl\lo'cl'iptioll pl'icc nt wldeh the TIIEOSOI'IlI~T Is )lllloli.'hcd ual'cly co\'ers co~t--the (lm~ig-Il in cHtahliH1Jin~ t.he j0111'llld haYillg been rnther to rcach a "cl'y IIi,k cil'clo of I'c,,,lcl'~, than to make a prolit .. \\'e .callllot ntfor,l, then-fore', t.o ~clI(l :-:1'('l)itIlCll copies free, Bor to supply Ithrn)'w:,:,. :::O~ cieticR or i1uliritlnnls gratuitously. For the ~mnc I'CflROll we nrc obliged to mlt:pt tllO I'lall, HOW lllJivCl' . ...:nl ill Amcriqn, of I'C4Plirillg' sHbt:Cl'i~)cr~ to pay in advance, alld of stol'l'illl{ tl,c papel' at tl.1C CII,I !'f tho tel'll~ 1'''':1 for. lIbllY yeal's of pl'nctlCal cx!,cl'lellcc hal'O convlIlCe,1 "cstC!'1I l'uhhHhcls t.hat this "y,telll of c",h p"YIIIC~lt i,; the be,t alltl most ""t).sf".ctuI'Y to uoth parties j mltl nil rcsl'cctnblc ,)olll'lInl::; nrc HOW c01Hll1ctc(l on tlnK plnn.

Httb~crihCl s wi:-;liillg' n printed receipt for thei!' remittanceB lIlt1:'5t selld st.amp$ for rctul'u postage. Otherwise, acknowlcdgmellt~ will 1.10 lUadc through the journal.

'I'he '1'lII':U~"I'IIIS'I' lI'ili al'l,cnr cach 11I01lth. 'Jlle mtcs, for tll'oll'e lllllll· bel'S of llot k.'s t!J:lII 40 ou1<IIII1I8 Hoyal 41.0 eath, of readillg" III:lttOI', .or 480 COltllll1l8 ill nil, III'C ns f"lIoll's :-'1'0 Suhscrihcr' in ally l'''l't of Imba, Its. 6 I'er a II II UIII ; ill Ccyloll, Its i; ill the Stl'aits I:lcttlelllcllts, Chilla, JIII'OIl, alld Anst.ralin, I:s. 8 ; ill Africa, Emope, all,1 the Ulliled Statcs, J:. 1. IInlf yenr (Illdin.) HR. 4; Hillg'lu copies mllW~ ]2. 1:ClllittHlICCH ill pUHtnI sbllup Jllust be at the rat.e uf nil I'" " I i to tho Hnl'eo to cOl'er ,IiSCOllllt. Tho abol'o rates illCilHIo po:;tn1ro. ,.Yo 'hUme 'I~'ill he ('nhTn{ ,in Ow llolJl.·s Oi' 71U/)IT ,fifnt 'lutUl the 'JWllI'l/ i . ., ~·('1IIitlIA,. (Inri l:nl'Hl'i(tbl!1 tilt!. })(flle,. u'ill he di.'icrJ/.tinuetl at tile L1:pil"(!fi~n (If tile term ,wl),~cribed /0;', HelllittalicCR Hhould he llI.vlc ill MOlley.unlel's, lilllldi.<, Bill chequcs, (01' '1'l'tlnsllry hills, if ill rcgistel'ctl letters), "lid made I'"Yllhlc nt.i1y to. tl,o !'II~l'HJETOIIS OF 'I'll!': 'J'1I1':OSIII"IIIS'l', :Ureach Calli I)" DOlllloay, Illdla. SnbSCl'Ij>tlOlls COI'IIU!'llCO \\'lth tho' olllllle.

Gq'TIIE O('TOIIEI! "~II x"n:~IIIEIl XDIIIEIIS Qt' TilE FIIIST Y(lJ,u~m II.\\'I;\G Lecn I't'l'rilllcol, tllC "uhsCl'il'ti,'" for thc lil'st year (:.". fl'ollt Octobor l8i!) to Septcmber 1880) willl,c Hs. (;·8 as ,,,lI-orli,e<1 ill tho ,\pril ",,,I ""bHequcut lIum· hers of t.h"t ,"ulumo. Sul'~cri"crs {or tho SccolI,l ,"01111110 p"y Hs. (j olll~·.

A(lE!I'T~: LOIhloll (Ellg'.), BCl'lIal'l1 Qllaritch, If, l'icc",lilly, W. ; Frallcc,l'. U. Lllymnric, 5, Hue N CIlYO tIeR Petits Champs, Paris; New York, Fuwler oml Wells, iii~, Jlruaelway; HostOIl, lIIass, Colby "",I Hid" D, 1IIuntg'0Illcl'y l'lacc ; Chic:'g-o, 111. ,), U. Bundy, 9~, La, Salle tit. An,lCriCtl!1 f'uuscribers way also order their l'apet'~ t~Il'ol1gh 'Y. Q. '~lIdg'c, 'E~'1., (1, Broau\~'n,Y' Ncw lurk. Melhotll'lle, W. Il. 'lerry, l'ub.lIw·b'II!Jcl·'if L'Vid. Wcst ludIC';: C.]<; TnyloI', St. ThulI"'s.

Ceylun: Isaac WeoI'cSooriy.1, Depu!.y COI'ulleI', 1>o,loll,llIlI'n: .John nol.ert do I:lilm SUI'YCYOI' (lellern!"" Ollice, Culumbo : ])011 Timothy Kal'UlHlrntlle, l(IIndy. 'Chilla :' Kelly mill Walsh, SIJallghaf.

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'l'llBltB 18 NO llEl,IGlON HIGHER 'rIIAN 'I'JlUTlI.

'l'!tu EtlitorA (liscl:tilllreilponsibility for opiniolts expressed by contribntors in their articles, with sOllle of which they ng'ree, with other~; llOt. Great latitude is allowe(l to cone­I'poll(lellt~1 all(l they alone are accoulltable fur wltat they write. The jOlll'Jlal is offered as a vehide for the wide dissemination of filets and opinions COlll1ecte(\ with tIle Asiatic religioJls, pltilosophies and sciences. All ,vho IHwe ~nythiJlgworth telling are made welcome, awl U9t i»ter­{el'ed with. l{ejected 111813. are Dot returDed.

OUR TIlIRD YEAR.

The seasons lla"e corne and gone, and tIle 'l'uEOSOl'IUSl' is about to enter upon its tltinl year of act.ivit.y amI use­fulness. Even its eueIllies willllot deny that it has been active, while its friends can best certify to its usefulness. A circulation eqllnl in llumbers to that of the oldest Illtlian jOllrnals, with but one or two exceptions, and more world-wille tItan either of theirs, is all the proof tltat is needed to sllow that our Magazille has found friends, and won sympathy in a multitude of commllnities ami among people of mallY creeds. At t.he start it was an experiment-too rash an one, some tltollgllt.. But now success Itas crowned the attempt, allIl the organ of our Societ.y has won a footing that notlting can shake. Twenty­t.hree months of punctual appearance at the homes of its subscribers cntitle its founders to tllcir fnll confidence that wltatever engagements they make on it~ behalf will be fully and honollrably fulfilled. ,VIlCrever Htey may be tel11purnl'ily callc(l 011 the Society's busilless; or wherever their place of resi(lellce may be temporarily established; or wllercH'f the mechaltical work of printing and mailiuO' the mngnzinc ma.y at alty time be coudllcted-every sub~ scriber will get his twelve ll10lltllly copies yearly, as hitherto, at the hegillllillg of every montI]. AmI he now is s\ll'e of it. Onr snccellS Iws also proved the excellence of the AUlerican plan of cash advance payment of snb­scriptious, illtrodllced iuto India hy us. "Ve have made no exceptions ill tllis respect, even in cases wllel'e Hajas aud officialH of tIle OOVenll11ellt of India have beell concel'lled.

. 'Ve ask 110 greater favollr of Hnja or oRicinl thnn of the hUll1hlest of uuderpai'l derks. Onc llame Oll om subscrip­tion-hooks l'epresellts no marc to the despatching-clerk thall any otller lIame, amI whcn the Raja's term of suo­scription is seen by llim to Itave expired, he t\cspatclles no more copies to that address. This is a lllatter that should be distillctly understood, for by attcntioll to it the I'U1l1oyance of Hot receivillg tllC magaziue at pet'ltaps tho time whell the slIbscriber most wauts to read it, wi]:i be eutirely avoi(led. Our year begius on the 1st of October, allll the nllmber for f-Jeptell1ber will be the twelfth allll last to wllich 0111' lIubscribers for Vol. II. will be entitle(!. The October IIlllnber will ollly be seut to subscribers for Vol. III. Awl "'hile upon this point we will refer the reader to the flying leaf annonncing the new rates of Stl bscription-enclosell hereill.

It l1lay be Ilote(} (1.3 an inte\"(t~ting evidence of the grow-·ing favour wllich the THEosol'lIlHT is enjoyitlg among the public, that Sl1 bscriptions for VoL II. are still constantly coming ill, tll(JIlgh we are at the elevellth Il11 I11h8 i'. allll eVCll orders for Vol. I. to complete sets. The Huctuatiolls ill tIle circulation of Olll' periodical are also fl.ll intercstillg study (luite apart from ally pecuniary nspeet of the qllestion. At tho beginning we had more subscribers ill the Bombay Pl'csillency tItan elsewllCre, anel happily "'e continue to l)(tve the mme. Madras, which at first ltanlly klle'll' of us Itt all, and which we Ilave not vet even visitctl once, stallds secol1(1 in all the Indian territo;ial s~lbdivisiolls. Next comes the PUlljab, llotwithstantliug

. that the English language call as yet scarcely be calle(l pre .. valent. The N.-W . .Pl·ovillIJCS come next; thtD BellO'al1

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Kattyawar and Gt0arath, ill the order mentioned. These facts do not indicate the respective incliuatiolls of the several districts to t.heosophical stud.y, for ill that respect :there is little to choose, probably. We have hitherto llever employed canvassers, nor to any extent employcd :ulvcrtiselllents to increase our circulatioll. If the THEO­SOPHIST had been t1llllertaken as a business flpeclliation, both t.hese aids wouM, of course, have been called in, aUlI undoubtedly our circulation might have been nmlle ten times as large as it is. We have preferred to leave it to work its own way without adventitious helps, for tInts can we best discover how wide amI deep is the feelillg ill IlIllia for the philosophy amI sciences that were so deal' to the forefathers of the present generation. No lIew Hindu subscriber will send in his name amI remittance unless he has a real reverence for his ancestors aud the country they made so glorious by their personal renown. There 'were mell Ollce wlto would have llenied themselves even necessary comforts to help to establish such a champion as our magazine of Illllian illtcrests. There may be :mch now among our subscribers. If so, all hOllour to them!

AmI BOW is it too much to ask those who have written to us so enthusiastically about the good we are doillg to India, to take a little trouble to increase our circulatioll ? Noone is so devoid of ftielllls as to be unable to get us at least one new subscriber.

.... '1'lIE "OC(!UL1' H'OR£D" ANlJ 'l'IIE

" SPIRTTU.AI~lBT." . thving just read in the London Spil'ifu,~dil3t ,a reyie;r

uf Mr. Sinuett's book "The Occttlt 'Vorld, I hnd III It more than a doubt expressed as to the reality of the " Brothers ", that body of mystics to which the personage kno~"n as " Koot Hoomi Lal Singh" belongs. The Editor of Hmt paper would II!tYe his readers believe that the said person is a creation of Madame Blavatsky's fallcy. " Mr. Sinnett" he says "has never seen Koot Hoomi, lIor docs he mention that any other Theosophist in India has lmll that privilege."

As some other persons may express the same doubts, and also some, while admitting their genuine chara~ter, lllay at· tribute them to :vrency other than that to wluch Madame Blavatsky refers "'them (the so-called '.' B.rothers" &c.,) .L hereby declare that not only have. I wlthlll the last few days sun one of the persons so deslgnatetl at the Head. quarters of the ~ociety at Bomb::y, but t11~t I ltaye very gooll rcasons (Wlll~h I canuot go mto l11?re .f~111!, now). to know that tIle saId persons are not spmt~ but leal 11l1l11au bcillgs exercising powe~'s out .of the onllllary. B?th befurc amI nftej' my connectlOll WIth. the Tileosoplllcal Society I have known and conversed WIth them 1?er80llally RIIlI witnessed the most wOllllerful results (willch would ordinarily be described as miraculous), but I must empha. siae my declaration that I do not .reS"a~·d them as Bupe/'natural amI all1 a1toge~hcr matenahstlC (or mt~lCr ludll/'ali"tic) in lily conceptIOns of the agency prOdUCI!lg them. Further I testifY that I have the strongest convlC· tiull based on reasons which, though authoritative, nre purely natural amI 'physical, th~t the saitl." Brother~" a.~e a mysterious frntcl'llity the, onhnary locatIon of WhICh 13

the regioDs north of the HImalayas. :MIRZA MOORAD ALEE BEG, F.T.S.,

Acting PI'e8ident of the" Sao1'asldl' 1'hcoBophical Society" at Blwllnufjal·. -'l'lte crLticiS111r:l tlpOl1 Mr. Sinnett's. b.ook " 1'1,~ Occult

lltOl'ltl" fol'ce upon me the duty of testlfymg from 11cl'fJOllal experience and knowledge to the, f[l,ct tha~ tl~~l3e whom we call .m· "Brothel'S of the First SectIOn of wholll "Koot Hoomi Lal Singh" is one, nnd who ,I).ossess . the so-called "miraculous" powers, 1t.re real nnd hVlllg. b.emsl'! and not llisembodicd spirits as the Editor of the SzJtntual. ist would have his readers think. It is but by a long course of stmly and tn\ining that such can be attained.

r August, 11;810

It is not belie/ with me but knotl1leclgc, for, if I have seen one of them, I have at least seen about half a dozen on various occasions, in broad tlaylight, 111 open places, and have talked to them, not only when Madame Blavat. sky was in Bombay but even whon she was far away aud I here. I have also seen them at times when I was travel­ling. I was taken to the residences of some of them· aud once wheu Uol. Olcott and Mme. Blavatsky were with me. Further than that I caunot say,. and shall not give any more informat.ion either about them or the places they reside i'n, for I am under a solenin obligation of secrecy amI the subject is too sacred for me to be trifled wilh. I may, however, mention that I know" Koot Hoomi Lal Singh" personally and have seen and conversed with him when Madame Blavatsky was here. as also· when she was far away. Bnt under what circumstances 1 am not at libert.y to disclose.

We Hindus who know the" Brothers" think it eqnal. ly absurd and ridiculons to insinuate that either Madame Blavatsky is a Inllatic 01' an impostor, or that persolls like Mr. Sinnett could have ever become her dupes. Neither is she a medium, nor are the "Brothers" "disembodied Spirits."

DAMODAR K. MAYALANKAR, F.1'.S.

I have hall the honour to be It member of the Theo­sophical ~ociety for upwards of two years, and during that period my relations with the Founders have been so cordial and intimate, that I can with confidence leave myself entirely to their guidance, so deep is my trnst ill the purity of their motives and the steadfastness to the cause they represent. Not this alone. They have not ollce raised false hopes which ol1ly eud in vain regrets. What they have asserted they have proved abundantly. And I have to thank Madame Blavatsky in a very espe­cial degree for having given me opportunities to realize, -what is generally supposell to be the mere creatures of that lady's imagilmtioll-the existence of the "Brothers," Other deservillg Fellows of our Society have had the same felicity as myself. So long as I live I shall continue to offer my heart-felt homage to the Himalayan Brotherhood, who from their far retreat condescend to watch the progress of this Society, and even the int.erests of SOllle of its illdivit\nal :Fellows.

S. J. P ADHHAH, 1!'. T.S .

We, the undersigned 'l'heosoplJists, having read ill the London Spiritualist the review of Mr. Sinnett's book 1'''e OCCI/it World and the doubts thrown therein upon the actual existence of a Brother of our 1st Section known as Koot Hool1li Lal Singh, with the sole object, as we infer, of snpporting the theory of "disembodied Spirits", consider it our duty to protest.

III COlllmon with some other Theosophists of BOlllbay we have hatl, on several occasions, the honor to see these "Brothers" of Ollr Society's First Section. 'We have thus been led to know that they represent a class of living, not "disembodietl" men or ghosts-as the Spiritualists would insist npon, that they are in possession of the highest virtues and psychic capabi. lities, and have, as we are assured from the opportunities we have been permitted to enjoy, ever exerted sl1ch powers for beneficent purposes, regarding the wl101e humanity as a Universal Brotherhood, but keeping aloof from the world for reasons best known to themselves.

MAltTUNDROW BADAJEE NAGN.1TH, F:1'.S. 1311AVANISHANKAlt OANESH MULLAPOOllCAU, F.T.S. -----_ .. -~-

'1'0 LtVE IN nAt) CUUN'1'R1I1S, '1'0 AJlSOCIA'n~ WITH 1\11<:AN people, to pnrtltke of blut food, to be coupled with ter4

Ina<rant.s, to obtai!l idiotic son'l, and to have witlowetl dal~ghters ill the family, nrc the [Six hellish miseries ill this wodtl.-Ol'iental Jlaxi11!t.

Angllf1t" 1881.J rHE THEOSOPHtS'r. 2:l1

STONE-SHOWERS.

Foll01l'ing is (In illtCl'~Millg lclfcl' 1vhiclt we franslale (rom tIle French" RCt'lle Spirite," of il1al'ch last. It is addrcssed 10 flwfjollrnal by N.A. J. Rilw, of Ihc lIaguc. llvllalld, (/ well­hl/Oll'1l gelltlcmall of great education, wltose name is fami­lial' fo man.1f IJeople ill London alld Paris. ./II. Riho is WI

~stccmcd eOI'1'cspondcllt of 01l1'S, (/lid we bclict·c Ida lJcl'sonrtl ~;~Jlerlellcc ill val'iolls phenomcna has beell great. - En. ] III(QS. The RtOIl(1 Rl!owel' iR a remarkable phenomenon which

takeR place at IIl1certain illtervals in every cOHntry, allli Hilder every climate. It is frequent in the East.

An official Report coming from Dutch East ItltlieR, alld Ilatell 1H31, states that olle Van Kessinger, then residing at Reanger, Jilld ill his own hOllse, sitllatC'(1 in SlImadon * a veritable rain of stones throllghout a periml of sixteen days. The Governor-General ad interim, !II. J. C. Band, ordered an inqnest, aIHI a report was made to which, among other Hignatures, was appended tlillt of Major-General ·W. Michiels, (then Lieutenant-Colonel), a man of a positive minll, known for his stel'll~ probity, and who wOllld never nllow hin1Fle]f to be duped. Remaining shut lip in a room, neal' a little girl who seemetl to attract the stones, this man recorded their continuous falling near the child whom they neyer even graze(\. His t'el'batiJn report will be fOl1nll fl1rther on.

From most reliable information this iR what happenetl. Belief in phenomena producet! by spirits is widely spread ill the .Malay Archipelago, ami the natives call them (iemhtl'ola. In the house of a gentleman named Van Kessinger lived a child, the cook's daughter, who kept con­stantly ncar her father. On Febl'\lary, the 3rtl 1H:31, the little girlapproaehed Madame Vall Kessinger and drew her attention to her Kabaai (white native apron) on which there were llumerous rot! spots of Sil'H. The latly bolieving the spOtfl wero lIne to a trick of other servants, had the child put on a clean }{abaa.i, but in a few seconds the ~ame spots appeared on it. At the same time, stones of about the size of an egg kept falling perpendicularly, seemingly from nowhere, at the lady's feet. Extremely frightened, she sent immediately a message to the !legent" 1- Radecn Adi, a lllan of great probity who became convince(l of the reality of the phenomena, but who, notwithstanding all his precautions, awl the help of an armed force, was unable to fathom t.I1O mystery of the red spots and the catlAe of the stone-fn lIing.

An Indian priest attempte(l to exorcise the "spirit." Placing a lamp on the matting, he hall hardly squatted himself on it, when upon opening llifl }{w'an:j: he receiveli n box Oil tho cars, anJ both bmp and Knt'an violently flew in opposite directions. As no hand was yisible the priest remainell very much perplexed. Madame Van Kessinger having Ilotermined to paRS the night with tho child in the Regent's house, the rain of stones began pOllring there llllrder than ever. The bare presence of tho child seemed sufficient to bring it 011.

The event. havillg spread abroad and pro(luced a com­motion, Colonel :Michiels was then officially ordered to investicrate the facts, and, if possible, to find out the trnth. Callsing the honse to be cleared of all its inmates, he placed a policeman in evmy tree around the building; he had the walls and ceiling of the room covered, tent-

• Sllmnrnnl;? The nnmo given must ho n misprint. 'Ve enn lind 110 snch plnco ns "Slimadnn" on thG maps. Bllt. thero is n province on tho nort.h const of Jnm nnd the cnpitnl of tho fOl"luer, hath called SUlIlarnng; tho dty being nhont 250 miles from Batavin.--En. TIIE08.

t We helievo the Hcsi,lent is here meallt. Ench of the twenty provinces of ,In'''\' callc(1 J:esi,lcneies, is gtl\'cl'lIe,1 by nn ollichi·-ofton It uath'c,-­whose titlo is that of nCRitlcnt, 01', perhaps, tho word !legellt is n tl'nnB'la­tioll of that of R(ldflt, as the potty Javauese chieftains afO called in Java " UndclU;".-ED. 'rIlEOS.

::: Tn religion the J,lYnnOSO are ilfahommcdans. which faith WitS e~t"h­lishe(1 hy Amh eou'lllel'ors in tho fifteenth cont,my. ond hns almost eutirely destroyGd Brahmanism nn(1 BII(ldhism, tho ancient rclig'ionR of tho eO\lntl'y. H WIlS tho lIin(lus who finding themselves in J IlVII flS COI1'1I1('I'OI'R on,1 settlO! s, fOllnded kingdoms on tho i~1nnd IIn(1 converted the nntives to Bl'ahmllnisllI. They cnn ho t.l'tlce<l hack to t.iw sixth cent.III'Y of 0111' el'tl, hilt IVel'e there far ('arlier, according to nnt,iyc legends al1(1 trntlitioll~. Long before tho 8ixlh rClltUl'Y, t.ho ,Jnvnllc~o hall acquired H con~idol'nblo c1CgTCO of civilisat.ion, t.heir Itmplc Iitel'tlttil'c nnd lang'lIage (thrce-folll'ths of it being Sanskrit and tho rest Mltlabnrirm) proving that thy got it from Ill'lia.-F;D. 'fUEOS.

like, with white canvass; but, notwithstanding all such precautions, he found that when alone with the little girl, the rell spots appeared without any visible canse upon the white linen walls, and that stones, hot and wet, were falling by fi ves and sixes at very short intervals, becominO' visible to the eye that followed them onlv at a heiO"ht of five or six feet from the ground. He ;'Iso saw ~ fruit called Ill) paya plncke(l by all invisible .hand from a neiO'h­boming tree of' that name, and at a great height; the ~ap running' !lown the tl'lluk f!'Olll the wound made in it by the violent tearillg away of the frl1it.* Sometimes, chail:s and glasses were seen moved by all invisible force, and the imprint of a hand was fOllllll 011 the glass of the mirrors. Colonel Michiels, after lllany Jays of investigation, made a report of the same which is now in the archives. '1.118 Government offered considerable sums to any perSOll who wonld discover the canse of that mystery, but all its efforts pI'ovell useless. The report runs as follows :_

To IJis Excellency tlte Acting GOL'ernOl'- General of flt~ Dutch East Indies.

On FeLI'IlIlI'Y 4, 1831, on tho first tIny of the .lavan ese Itlonth N lIis Pocassn, liS I was returning 'froll1 nn inspection tOIll', I snw II group of pel'solls IIssemLled around my house. My wife llfIi.rll1ed to me t.hat stones thrown Ly lin invisiLle POWCI' wero falling into OUI' I'oom nnd into the interior gallery. Be­licving it. at 6rst eithct· a Illdlucinat,ion on t.heil· pe.rt 01' somc wickcd trick, I got allgry. Entering the IIOUSO I placcd myself in t.he milldle of the gallery !lnd snw !It ollce stones falling pel'peIH]icnlal'ly, passing, so to say, t.hrough t.hc ceiling, the bonnls and rafters of which nrc closely and solidly fixcd lind united, alill tlo not show the smallest cl'lwicc. This provcd to mc t.hat the st.onc~ CIIIlIO t.hcre from no human hnnds.

Gnthcl'ing nil t.he persons of Illy house and the inmntes of tho neighbollring nbolles toget.her, and placing t.hem under the wfltch and in chal'ga of the jlOlicc, on !In csplanade opcn from the fOIll' sides, I thon shut myself up with closcd wilillows and doors in my hOIlSC, alonc with my wife. '1'he stoncs pourcd in still from all sidcs, until-the phenomenon Leing well provcd to us -we wcre finlllly compellcd to re-opcn doors nnll windows. Thcse stones -some of which wcighcd nine pounds-werc thrown in to the numbcr of one t.hom:lIld 1\ day, !Inti for a pcriod of sixtecn I1:1Y8. ]\Iy house is Luil t of djali wootl, very dry lind Eolid; t.he windows Leing fl1l'ni~hed wit.h a close. woodeu lattice, the square openings of which nre two inches in diameter. 'l'he stolle·min Legan daily lit 5 o'clock A.. M., and stoppcd lit 11 p. M., offering that strllnge peculiarity that it secmed to ncquire 31hlitional violence in the preseuce of n little Jamnese girl whom it pui·slIc(1.

I close the report, which 011 Iside the simple RIa tcment of f.'lcts wOllill hecome too \'oillminous, Lut to corrobornte which I here gi\'c tho namcs of wl'll-known lIud I'espectllule persons who were all witnesses to the phenomenon. linn lire rondy to verify it under oath shoulJ the Government l'e(Illire them to do so.

(Signell.) W. MICIIlELS. LIEUT.-COLONEL, AID-DE-CAMr, El'lnlllinger, lato Inspector of Coffee Plantations.

V. Kessinger; .T. Van Simi ten ; etc. etc.

This doellment is at present in the Royal nrchives of Holland.

Promoted, Geneml Mr. Michiels spoke mrely of the above experience. In 1877, at an official dinner, when askell to repeat his story, he eonsenteu to do so. Geneml Van Gagern having laughed at him, a violent quarrel was the result, and the row ended by Van Gagel'll offering his excu~es and taking back his imprudont aIHl flippant remarks.

Following are factoS of the same kind.

In the southern part of Soehapoem (7) near the place of the same name, liV('d in 1834, a family llamed Teisseire. The husband was a Frenchman and inspector of a. Government indigo manufacturing store. TIle family was generally liked. In that year, while they were at dinner a shower of stonos came upon the table, and the same was

• Tho Papaw in lIInlnY-l"'I'(/.'Ia. 'j'ho fruit, of the size of "melon grow. like that of tho" .lack-fruit' tree in Ceylon an(1 India, at n cOllsi:lerablo height, and in n ~llIster jllst at tho root of the lea"l"es The .tern being soft mill herhaceolls, if t.ho frllit is violentlv torn Ollt instea<1 of being cllt off it lenl'es a l'eg-1.Iinr IYOIIIIII on the tl'llllk:-En. 'I'IIEOS. '

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l'epeated for n fortnight in every room of the house; the stones being sometimes replaced by buffalo bones, and ollee by a whole he:\J of that animal. Once M. Teisseire being out, sented ill a chariot Jrn.gged by buffaloes; he found himself stoned with pieces of dry earth. As at Suma­lln.n (Samamllg?)* not a crea.ture was near, the stones falling perpelllliculnrly, and nev.er hurting or even touch­ing nny aile.

The Regent of Soe~lapoem (?), before he hall personally investigated the above-given phenomenon, desirillg to pass one night at the honse of 1\£. Teisseire, went to bell. As soon as he lay down, the bed was vigoronsly shaken and finally line,l np entirely frOI11 the floor, ill the presence of his film ami severnl servants, amI HIllIer the fnll glare of several lalllps. In this case what is 1I10st remarkable is, that after having marked the stones with a cross or some other sign, they were thl'own into the torrent of Tjiln.n­doog which passed neal' the honse at a ,lepth of 1:'0 feet; and, in less than a minute, these marked stones were thrown back ont of the water, all wet, bllt bearing the signs that identifie,l them.

The refli,lent Ament tells of a similnt· case. Finding him!:lelf Oil Government service on a toU!' ill the ,listrict of Breangel',t where he was serving as inflpector of coffee plantations, he learned that at Ballliullg to there was a !1elld(~l'ol(~ fRpirit) then appearing in a fll11all house. He determinell to learn the trntlt about the matter. The llallnted cottage was sitnate opposite the honse of tho Assistaut Hesident of Bandung, one Nagel, aIHI WitS oc­cupied by an old woman, a native from the SUlllla islandR.

M, Amcnt, accompanicd by the Assistnnt Resi,lent and the Rcaent, plnced the slllall bnildi ng ullder the watch of t.he l)oliee, inside as well as outside. The old lady was invited to remain outside, and when all wn.s really the im'efltilfatol's proeeeded to the haunted aholle hy the ollly road l~'lding to it-a narrow path which b~'ought the visitors to the very door. There was but a slllgie room in the hut, The Sumlanese woman led the way, being followed closely by ,M. Ament, the Assistant Hesillellt, nlHI lastly by the Hegent amI his s,nit?. On the threshold the SI1I1I lanese wafl caught by lIlVISI ble hands by hcr legs, smhlenly upset, and dragged arollnd the room, She was shouting for help. Here, too, the r~olll hatl hall its walls and ceiling covered with white sheetIng'. M, Ament received a largo handfnl of gravel right in hiR bosom, which upset him to such an e~t?nt that ~o late as in 1870 he 'was heard to say that nothlllg coultl lIHluce him to repeat the experiment, The eauses of theso IloinO's were never discoverel1.

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Several years later, dmillg the Hesideney of 1v. y ISS-cher Van Gaasbeck at Bandung, analogous phcnomena again occllI'red there. The civilized all~l wel1~educate'l Javancse regents, cOl'l'oborn.ted by the natlye clueff!, ayer that s11ch weird things happen very often III 01lL' colollles, hut that the Iudians are afraid to talk of t.he mat.ter lest they should be laughed at and ridiculed by, scepl ica.l NiederlaTHlel's.

In 182;) 1\1. Mertins was Governor of the Moluccas Islands. Ouce, townl'lls evening, as he was at Amboyna, in Fort Victoria, he saw a ,shower of stones fall. The fort wa.'! Rituated in ,an open space, and n vast. esplau~de sepa1'll.te,l it from the nearest house. It was SImply I Ill­llosflible to reach the fort with a stone from any of these buihlings. The esplanade wn.s then surrounded by sen-

... Unless tho bl:uno for tho incorrect l'enlICl'in,r,: of the UILmes of !:hc~e localitic~ is to be lai.1 at tho <\001' of thc printers wO have to beg M. hlko S l'al'(lon for tho IihCl,ty wo tnke in correcting them. '1'ho cns?" rol~te'l by hilll Are 1Il0st incl'c,lible for tho general l'cn,lel', though,. hrL\'I!lg wltncs"ed fnt' more c:<trnol'dinnI'Y phenomona pel'i'OIlrLlly, wo beheve III thom tho. ronghly Bnt the 'l'nIlOSOI'IIIST is scnt t.hl'onghont tho worlt!. S(!1lI0 pcrsons might I'cad thi_ ncconnL in ,Jam, or, finding thcnlOolvcH thel'c, dO~II'o to nBce.l'. tni" how far tho statements nl'o tl'uo. It is nbsollltely ncccssnry thnt III

0\'1;1')' cnse tho nnlllos of tho localities. whcre tho phenolllenn took plnee, ,nnt! theil' geographical Jlo.it.i~n, 81;011111 ho rendored as c:'ll'cfully AS pOSSIble, '1'he 'rhcosophi"tn :UIII Spll'ltllnhsts, hnvo too many ellcnllCS to allow thc latt.er tl'illlllphs which might he easily :",oidcd by exercising sOllie Iittlc cnro o\nd ncither of us-Spil'itii't,s or Theos"phists-can be too cnl'cful.-Ell. '1'UEOS.

+ Prinnger ol'l'rllY:lngnn IlIl1st bo the correct nnme.-Ell. '1'''EOS. + HAnllnn'" is one of the oloven ,Ush'iets which eonsl,iLllte the rrnynn;:-nn

ol'+rri:1n~cr ;OIl'CIICY, ill tho isll\l,,1 of Jnvo, of which it i~ one of the lovchest IIIHI me.t, l'id,lIl'e"'l'1C plnce9,--I~o. '1'111':03,

=====================.--tries and 110 one allowed to pass, and the garrison was ealled to arms inside the fort. But all this did not in the least prevent stoneR, bits of Ilry lime &e:, from shower-' ing among the l'n.uks of sohliers. People saw the l)rojectiles coming fmm a short distance aIHI not at a very great height from the grollnd. The phenomenon was repeated lIpon severnl oecasions, and never was a man tonche(l by one of the stones, All this is to this day It

mystelY. The nelVs fllll'eatl widely over the islands, ;'n,l in ] H~2, at BalHla it wa,<; still diRcllssed.

In Europe Rnch showers of stoneR have been known everywhere. The stone-phenomena of the Rile (ll','1

GI'e8 (in 1H.J.!),) amI that of the Rne <lit Rae * (18;)8) are well remembered'in Paris. I will clORe hy CTivin CT some l)articllial'i\ about a c3.se.which came untler l~y o~vn ob· servation at the Hague-in 1871. In the Van HOCTendorp Street, there lived the family of Captain O. E,"'K, who oeeupied the fleeollli floor of a hOllse in which one of the b'tck roon13 confl'Oute(1 othOl' hOllses of nn a,ljacent. street. Th3 family hat] been there but a few weekfl, when, on one afternoon, a stone dl'Opped on the window-sill of the sai(l room. The phenomenon wa.'! repeate(l dming soveral ,lays, gonemlly between two and folll' p.m, Besides stones, there also fell pieces of hrieks, coals, lime, fragments of crockery, and even dung carefnlly 'Happed up in paper. I visited the house in company with .n. sceptical inveRti. gator, a snrgeon, ~II·. H. G. Becht, and the Captain's wife showed us a heap of rubbish. The room lmd been abso­lutely ruined. The mirrors, witlilows, ornamentfl, all were in bits and rag;;. The stones flew with sneh a force that the winllow curtains hall been all torn' into shreds. The misRiles coming from a great diRtanre were seen in their fli,yht to fall from f.'l.r higher than the roofs of tho adjoin­in~ houses. The police investigate,l the case for several days with the utmost activit.y; placed some men from the police force upon every l'oof--but coultl discover nothing to explail.l the cause of it. Stones comin!l from now!tel'C, and directing themselves towi\.l'Il the windows of the room, wero continually flying before the nOfles of the policemen, and that was all that could be ascertained.

It wOIII,1 certainly be worth the tronble of trying to find out and aceept some definite opinion, as to the nature of t.he invisible beings who canse snch showers of stone to come clown. 'Vlmt do they do it for 1 Is it to amuse t.hemselves? A strange pastime L .. For n revenge? ... But the uniformity of that phenomenon in various countries forbids such a lIupposit.ion. Must we believe in other beinCTs (than human spirits) as helieve,l in by the Thel)­soplJsts? I wonhl like to learn the opinion of yoUI' readers upon this suhject,.

A. J. RIKO. 'l'lte IIague, Decem,bel' 1R80.

Editor's NOlc.-Mennwhila, M. RiI<o will pel'hnps pel'mlt liS 1'1 WOI'II. Tho Inst sent.ence of his lelter proves clclIl'ly t.hnt oven ho, n spiritist, is IInnble to trnce such 1'1 unifol'lnly sense· leRs, i,liotie phenomonon-one thRt pCI'io,liol'llly OCClll'S in o\'el'y pnl't of tho wOI'lllnnd wit.hout tho slighcst. CRuse fOI' it., ns wit.h· out t.he lenst moral effect UpOIl those present,--to the ngency of disemhodied III/mall spil·il,~. We well know t.Il1lt., whilu 1Il0st. of the spil'it,ists will Rttribute it to the E,~prils n.aUns (Illuli­cious disemhodiell spidts) the ROl11nll Cnt.llOlic \vOI'ld nnd lTIost of the piolls PI·ot.est.nnts-nt. I('a~t tll090 who mny hn\'e cOllvincol1 themselves of the fllcts-will Iny it nt. t.he 11001' of t.ho devil. Now for nrglllTlont.'s Silk!', nllll nllowing tho hloa of such cl'en· hll'es ns the" maliciollR hlllnnn ROllI,;" of t.he sl'il'itist nnll t.he II dcmons" of the Chl'ist.inll t.heology t.o exist el~e\VhOl'e thun ill imnginnl.ion, how cnll both thcse cllls~cs of believel'il Rccollnt fOI' the cOIlt.l'I\dietiollil invoh'cd? Hcre 111'0 heings wllich 01' who--whcthcl' Ilevils, 01' mlllicious ex-humnn imps-m'e ovillolll.ly wiekc,1. Theil' ohjeet.-if they 11I1\·e nny nt all-mu~t

, be to dol'ivo cl'lIcl plcnslll'O fl'Ol11 t.ol·menting 1I101'lnls? They Cl\lInot be less bellt IIpOIl mischief 01' more cnl'cflll of possible

• 'rIVO stl'ooh ill I'l\l'i~ The tlVe C:Lses rofOl'I'Ct.! to, Were mnde tho ohject of tho stl'icLest illvo,;tigILtion by the policc, 'tn<1 ill the case of that of 1858, tho ~:lIIperor Nnpo:~')11 ol',lol'e,1 tho soverest resenrches, hnd thc hOllse omptio.l. isolnte,l, nl1(1 Rl1[l'onn,letl for IIc:1l'ly n mOllth, but the rry.t,ery 1'0m:1ined 1I11""lve,1 for o VOl', In I~ussia thero were sovernl snch c""e~ In the Ia-t twenty-fiYo yanrA which hallled tho l',,!ice.--Ell, 'j'IJE'lS.

.August, 1881.1 If H E T H ~ 0 SOP HIS T " "'='=;::--:::"....0=-=--=========================

"('FUltS thnn orllinnt·y mischlo"ous fchool-hoy!'. Yet wo see tho FlonoF, 01' whnteycl' tile mis~ilcs mny hc, cnl'~fltll!1 afJoiriil1g contact with tllOl:'o PI'OSCllt. Thoy filII nil nl'ound without" OVCII gl'lIZillg" tho Iittlo .JI\\'nncl:'o gil'l-ovidclllly tlic 1IIedillln in tho cnse ob;:cl'\'cd hy Gcncml l\1idliek They fnll thick nmong tho \'lllIks of the raltliel's nt "Fol't Yiotorill;" nnd pnss ince881l1l1ly fOJ' 8('vel'lll dnys befol'o t.ho Vl'I'y 1)1)8('8 of Iho ]lOlicc ngellts nt, PlII'is 111111 tho IIngl1l', wit.hout evel' t.oul'hing, Itt nlollo hurting, nny OliO! Whnt doos this menll? J1Ialici01/S hU1ll1I1I spil'il.:, to sny 1I0lhing of' dovil~, woul,1 cOl'l.nil1ly hl\vo 110 such tlell('ftlc efll'O fll\' those thcy WCI'O bent UpOIl t.OI'lllellt­ing. Whnt lire they theil, t.hese inl"isiblp. pel'secutor:;? Ol'lli-1IIII'y hlllllllll "8piJ'its"? III such n eMO hl1l11l1l1 illl.olligoncc would bo but n II II III 0 ; n WOl'd dovoid of mcnuiu" n~ f\oon n;; . I I' • <" It gets !;l'pnt'n lei lI'om Its physionl ol'gnn!'. It wOllltl bocolllo fI blill,1 fOl'CO, n I'I'Ill lin II I. of illl.cllectulII oUCl'gy I.hnt WIIS, nnd wo wOIII<l hl\"o to cl'ellit C\'CI'y IiLJernted soul with illsllnity !

Hnvillg disp050t! of I,hc I.hcory of" spirits," "imps" nnd "dcvil~," Oil tho SCOl'O of tho idiocy IIml tollll IIbsence of II1l1levo-10llce in the 11I'0ccedillgs, 01100 thllt tho gClluillcnoss of t.he phcllomellon is PI'O\'O", to whntelso cnn it ho nttJ'iLJutcd ill its c(tIIsufi01t or OI'igill, bllt to n blilld though li,'illg fOI'cc: one sub­jee/Cll to 1111 illl,I'1I1I8I,(1'Ol<8illI0 Inw of IItt,I'nction nncll'cpulsioll­ill its CO\ll'SO IIIIlI c.!I'ecfs-n Inw which eXllct scienco hn~ yot to discovcl': fOl' it is 0110 of illillllllc\'I\blo cOl'l'clnt.iolls 11110 to Illllgll01.ic cOlHliliollS whioh 111'0 slIpl'liell ollly whclI bot.h nnimnl nnll tel'­I'cslrillllllllgllol,i~1ll IIl'e 11I'cselll. ; IIIclUl\vhile the fcl\'mCl' Im!l to fighl. it~ wily step by step fcJl' I'ccogllitioll, fill' sciellce willllot recognizc it in il" JI",'1c/wlogicai effects,-Ilo what it.s nclvoclIl.es IIllly. Tho SpiJ'itullli~t~ reglu',j tho phollolllcnn of tho st.ono­~howCl;; liS in'('glllul'? 'Ye, Thcosophist~, III1SWOI' Ilmt III though theil' OCCIII'I'CIICO nt n gh'clI plncc Illlly IIppelll' to bo vel'y iI'I'c­gnlln', yet from II cOl1\plll-i80n ofthosc in 1111 PllI't8 of I.ho wol'ld it mighl. bo found, if cl1I'oflllly I'ecordod, thllt. hit.hel'to thoy hl\\'o heclI ulliflll'llI 01' nClll'ly so, 1'01 hnps thcy IIllly be nptl)' complIl'oti wit.h the t.OI'1'c~t,rilllm!\gnotic Ilel'tlll'lJlltiolls cull cd hy S(lienco " filJIII," 1111,1 Ilistinctly seplll'llt.oll hy hOI', III. one t.imo, from I.hlll. othCl' clllss shc nnmcti " pCl'iotiiclIl" ; tho" fit.flll" now being fOl\lll1 to I'CCll\' at us I'oglllm' pOl'iods II~ Iho forme I'. '1'ho cnuso of t.heso \'I1\'iat.iolls of tho Illllgll(ltic IIccdlo i~ ns CIII.i1'oly ullknown to phyl'iclIl scienco U8 111'0 tho phcllomcna of ~I.olle­showcl's lo those who stutly psychological Sciellco; yet both 111'0 cl08(11y cOllnccted, If wo 111'0 IIskc.! whllt we mOlln by t.ho compnJ"ison-nnd iniligllllnl. may be I.he quo~tiOIl 011 tho pm't of bol.h, Sciellco 111111 Spil'itualislII-wo will hUll1bly III!SWel' thnt such i~ tho tCllching of Occult 8cic:;co. Both c\n~so~ of OUI' op­poncnts IlIlVO yet milch to lel\l'n, nnd tho r;pil'it.ulllists--to 1\I'8t ?/lllcarn mnch in IHlllil,ioll. Did Olll' fJ'icllt1~ thc .bclic\'('l's ill " ~piril.s" e\'(1I' go to 1,lIe h'oublc of lil'st stut!yillg " mc(lium­ship" lint! only t.hen tUl'lIing thcil' nttcntion to tho phOIlOIllOIlI\ occlI\'I'ing thl'Ough the sell~itives? 'Ve, III. lensl., 1I0\,el' lIelll'J thllt such is Iho CI\~C, IIOt OVCII tlm'illg the most, scielltific in­\'cslignliolls of mcdiumist.ic pOWOI'S thllt evel' took placo­Pl'ofe~~O\' 11111'0''; 111111 :\11'. Cl'ookos' cxpol'imenls. Anti yet, 111111 they IlOilO so, Ihey might hllvo found hoI\' closely reIn ted to 1I1ll1 tlllpcntlent Oil t.ho val'intiollS of tcn'est.I'inl mngllcl,i~m 111'0 thoso of tho mccliu1lli~lic 01' IInill\l\l magnot.ic st,lltc. WhClwvOl' n t,I'UO lI1ellillm fhils 1.0 got phcllomollll it is illllllcdillt.ely III.tl'ibuted by tho Spiritnnlisls, IInll OftClICl' by Iho " Spil'its" thcmsolves to " t:nlil\'ol'llble cOllditions." '1'ho Il1ttcl' 1\1'0 lumpod togel.hCl· ill n singlo phmse ; but nover did wo helU' the 1'0111 Heicnl.ilic nml ehiof c:lu~e fOl' it given: Iho lInlin'oumble nirilll.ions of tho t('rr .. ~tl'illl IIIngllct.islll. Thc luck of hlll'mony in t.ho" cir'cle" of ilJ\'cstiglllol'S ; various lind conflict.ing mngnetislIIs of tho " sitl.el's " 111'0 nil of secon,llII'y impol'llllICO. '1' II e powel' of U I'enl, sl,,,ollgly cltal'gcd lllol!ium- will IIllVny~ pl'ovuil ngain!'t the tlllillial mnglletism whieh II1l1y he IIdvOl'SO to it; hilt it cnnnot pl'oduco c/tects ullless it rcceived n frosh lIupply of 1I1010cullll' fOl'CO, nil ilDpl'os~ fl'om tho invisiblo hody of thoso wo clIlI blilld ,. Elcmclltnls" 01' Forcos of Nnt!II'o, IIl1d whieh Iho Spil'itulllbts ill e\'cl'y cnse I'cglll'tl ns t.he "spirits of t.ho dcad." ShowCI's of sl,olles hnve boen kl\O\,'n to tako plnco whcl'e l.hOl'o WIIS not II Iivillg soul--conscqnont.ly uo 1I10dium.

• Wo hnlt\ thnt n" I'hysicnl IlIC(lilllll," "0 cnllc(l, is but nn or~nlli'll\ morc "CII"ith'c thnn 1lI0.t othcr. to tho tcrrc,trinl eloctro·llIl1gnct.ic inllnction. That the p<lwers of n IIIcllinm for thc I'rOlitlction of phol1omenn fhlct"ato frl)m ono hnnl' to nl1"thol- i. n fact pro\"on by :lit', Cl"Ooko.' cxperiments nntl, beliedng" thon.~h w~ (II) il1 UIO "xi.tcHco of innnmerable othOl' 80-cnlle'" Spiritnnl .'orcc. he.illc. n",1 'lnite in<lcl'etlllent of hn1l1nn spirito, wo yet fit'mly 11laintnin thllt I'/'!I .• ical II1cdinm~ ha'-e very little, if IInything, to tlo with tho IlIttcr. Their powers nro I'nrely physicnl ","1 c0111litinnlll ; i, f, the<o l'"wor8.loponll nhn".t ontircly on tho degl'eo of rcccl'tivit.y, nalll chnnco polariznt.ion of tho body of tho medinm loy the I'loctro-mn~nctic nnt! ntmo"l'h~I'ic c,n'rent., 1'",'ely I'"yrholngicnl mnnifcstntions nre II"ite 1\ flilT~rcnt t.hing,-JoJn, 'J'lIf:O~. . ,

Tho mediulll clllli'gcd by tho nhnosphel'io legion of' "eOl'reln-' tions" (wo IlI'efCl' cnlliilg thom by tho lIew scientific 1,e1'm) will flUmct f<1,olles wi thin tho pel'iphel'y of his fOl'ee, hut will lit the eume timo I'epcl thClll, t.he polal'ic condition of his body lll'e\'cllting the missilos from tOllchillg it.. AmI its own molo­cIIIIII' conditioll will tempoml'ily induct with itR pl'opel't.ies nil 1.110 olhol' hlllllllll nud oven 1I0u-sensith,o bOllies II1'0uud it. Somclimo~ t.hero IIlny bo nn exception to tho rule ))J'otluccti hy somo ollllllce (·ouditiol1. .

'l'his CXpllll1lltOl'Y post~C1':pt IIllly bo closcd with t.he I'emnl'k to l\[. Hiko t.hat we do 1I0t I'cgllnl tho Elcmcnlnls of tho ]{Ilbllli~t;; 11:'1 propcrly 'I bcillgs." '1'hey 111'0 tho nctive FOl'ce~ nllil COI'I'011liioll8 of Firc, \Y ntel', Eort.h nnt! Ail', nntl thci!; shupo is like tho hucs of tho chulllclcon which hns no PCl'IllllllOllt colom' of it.s (lWII. TllI'ough t.ho illtl'I'plnnetlll'y ul\Il inl.CI'stcllllr spncos, t.he vision of IIlmost evcl'Y cluil'/JOyulIt can I'cllch, Bllt it is ollly tho "'ninell eyo of tho proficicllt in EllRtCI'll Oeollllhlll, thnt clln fi~ tho flitting shnt.!ows nnd givo tholll a shnpe nnll n nama.

.... TIlE BIBLE REVISiON.

According to statemonts, unofficial . but nppnrently authelltic, the Revisers of the New Testament have made alterp,tions which, the Pall Mall Gazette snys, will excite some constcrnntion nil (I not n litt.le regl'et among all those who are familiar with the Authorized Version. In the Lord's Pmyel', the concl\lding' petition, "Deliver us fJ'OIll Evil" is chn,lIged into" Deliver \IS from the Evilone"-a Rontonce which forces the pel'son pmying into either believ­ing in n. personal Devil, ns iIi the good (lays of 01.1, or censing to he a Christian at, nIl. Hnlt'-a-dozen of the most familiar texts in the New Testament have disappeared altogether. The question" What Rhall it profit a man if he shnll gnin the whole worl(l nnd lose his own soul 1" is metnmorphosed into "Whnt doth it profit a man to gain the whole world ItIHllose !ti.~ Olt'n lU'e.?"-a change which makes all the differenoe in t.he wor1.1. "Hades" is substituted fOl' "hell" in two well-known passngos. The inscription on the altnr "to the Unknown God" will read" to nn Unknown God." " It is heyond our present pnrpose" says the Gazette-" to discllss this text at length. The famous passnge of the f Three witnesses' (lisnppears. The last twelve verses in St. Mark and the story of the woman taken ill adultery iil St. John are obelizcd. The much-controverted f God was mnnifest in the flesh' (1. Tim. III. IG) is now snbstitut­ed for 'He who was manifested in the fleslJ.' The change has but little of the significance wllich it would have had for controversialists of thirty years ago. \Vhnt­ever tho ortho(lox theologinns may still hold, their Unita­rian oppononts have ceased, for the most part, to build theil' nrgument on texts, not holding ns final the llictnm even of nn Apostle, however. nccumtelJ nscel'tained and in t.erpretc( \'''

It is evident that, notwithstandlllg the feigned ait· of imlifference flssllmed by various secnlar papers the revision has struck into the very heart of the Christian belief. By cutting out the passage of the" 'l'hl'ee 'Vitnesses" it deals n. mortal blow to the Trinity; and, by taking out from verse !} to verse 20 in Chnpter XVI. Mark, it sweops away !lome of the most vital proofs that the Missionaries love so mnch to trinmphnntly point out to the unbelievers. The reader has but to glance over them to see how important they are.

(f Verse o--N ow, whcn .Tesllf! was I'isen early, thc lil'flt day of the wcck, he appearcll first to Mary Magdalcne &C,"

None of the other three Evangelists mentioning this fact, there disappears fl'om t.\w list of witnesses the first and most importnnt of all-Mal'Y Magdalene who is nllege(l to hnve seen the i(lentical person of Jesus and conversed with him immelliately npon his resurrection and on the very spot Where he had been buried. Matthew, Luke, and John inform us, alreadv 011 seconcl-hmul evidence that the corpse had (lisnppenr~,1 fl'om the sepul­chre, In Matthew it is stated that the" two" Maries were iol(1 that Jesns hnd riscn, by 01lP angel whoso '" CO\lnte-

THE THEOSOPHIST. [Angullt, 1881:

nance Wll.ll like lightning," (XXVIII I-G). In Lnl.·e, (XXIV. 1-8) one angel is transformed into two" men in Rhining garments" who ask the women, " why seek ye the living among the dead." And in John, Mary Magdalene who comes once mOl'e alone, n\1(ls neither the corpse, nor does she see two or even one man or angel, but runs to Simon Peter and brings him back to the sepulchre wherein he filllls and sees naught but "linen clothe:;" find nfl.pldns.

Evidently these three discrepancies Imll heen noticell by the enomies of the new sect from the first ages of Christianity, and sought to be remediell by the introduction of an e.ljc-witoc8S to the Resurrection. It was a cl~l1~H;y forgery and was lleteeted long before the prcscnt RcvlslOn. To enforce tho proof, Jesus is made in lIlad.: to appear bodily" unto two other" disciples ami then "unto the cleven" collectively.

In verse U, Christ is made to say to his diseiples:-I< Go ye tnto all tIle world, and prl':lch t.he GOf.:pcl to cvery creature,"

which is n llireet contnvliction to his distinct commaJlll in Aloft/lew not to go "in t.he way of the Gentiles" or "into nny city of t.ho Samaritans" but to "go mther to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," (Mattl! X.5-G). Verse IG with its awful sentence,

"lIe t,jlllt Ilelicveth n11l1 if! bnptiRel1 shall hc savcu; hilt he thnt hl'lic\'cth 1I0t shnll bc tlnlllllc(I,"

disappears \lnder tho merciless pen of the Revisel's, nlHI henceforth" Snlvation" amI" Damnation" with their fiendish c()]Hlitional clauses rest on the Boap-bubblo of pat,riotic anti theological fallcy.

Verses 17 and 18 fare<1 no bett.er at the hands of tho learned critics.

"17. And tho~e signs 8hall follow t.hem that helie,'<', In my n:HlIO shall they caRt out Ileviis ; they shnll speak ,,,ith new tongues:

18. They shall tnke 111' serpentH, aIHI if they ,It'ink nny (1,~n,lJ.v t.hin" it flhall IIOt hl1rt thelll ; t1wy shalllny hnlHlR 011 the Hick I1IHI

"' " they shall recover.

These two verses were especially compromising for Christ.ianit,y, nlHI the Revisers did wisely, acconling to tho Pallll! all Gazelle, to eject them from tho Bible, sillce, the nccepto<l vorsioll-" t.he '1't.1'/1I8 Recepills-coul(1 no longer hold its ground." In India., as in CeylolJ, of Missionaries who" believe" and are "baptize<l" we have in abulIllance, and the cobms arc still more plentiful. 1311 t no one ever saw a pad!'i, however firm in ltiH faith, stop to show the power of f"I£O faith upon one of those reptiles; nor wOllld he he likely to partake of the contents of n Cll p with comml1nio~1 wine. ill, it., werc h.is fai.tll put to a test by a<ldlllg to It some Pl'IlSSIC actd. Therefore, have the Hevisers dOlle well to get rid of worlls which always looked as a vain and bomhast.ic }wetence, which no priest or persoll has hitherto justified.

NotlTithstalHlillg' the univeJ'fmlly-known work of that Revision, alld its widely-sproa(l news, there are actually several missionaries in Ceylon, nlHI in one case n high official of the Protestant Church at Bombay who flatly denied the fact, only last year. Not only was not there one word which would be allowed to be eliminated from the Scriptmes they said, but the news itself of the Revisioll was but " false news"-a snare laid out to perplex the nntive convert by the enemy,

The "false news" became a reality though. The work of the Revisers is completml aud achieved as fairly as the (lifficult position under which they labolll'ed wouid pcrmit them. Notwithstanding every proteflt to the cont.rary-" a practically new text Las been use<1 by the Revisers". Sllmming llP its impressioll of the whole, the Pall M(~ll Gazette expresses a helief" that a difficult task has been IJel'forl11ed with tact amljlldgment. 1'0 question the criticism of the scholarship of a botly which presents itself with so commanding a replltation as t.he Company of New Testament Revisers would be pre­FHlmptuous in the extreme. But anyone who is familiar with the Authorized Version call form an opinion of the general effect ot the revision. That which we h:",e formed is this, that very great improvement., if we can

hardly sn,y the muxilllllm of improvement, had been effected with as little distlll'bance as could be hoped. We lose, indeed, something. This couhl not but happen. 'Va should have felt it if but half-a-t1ozen words hn,d been change<1 of that IVhich has so grown into our lives." ......

AntI if so, we can hardly detect any other but a false note in the concluding sentence of the article whose author ll'onlll ha~'e liS believe that "the New Testament to which we have heen accnstome<l from 0111' childhood still remains to liS in it.s integrity."

That it is not so is sufficiently proved by the passionate olltcry of some of the clergy, prominent nlllong whom is Al'chdeil.coll Denison. who publicly expressed his opinion that the Revised Version of the New Testament was " an abomination. in the sight of God." There was a timo in Pt'I)tefltallt Chrifltellllotll when the infallibility of the Bible was sllbstituted and accepted with as I11l1ch blind subservience ns the infallibility of the Pope. It Wits then a sacred volnme, and its testimony so unimpeachable that to question it became the one f( unpanlonnble sin." These days are gOlle-never to retut'll again, for the swa(ldling clothes of the infancy of \Vestern civilization al'O cast off, and blitlll faith cnn henceforth satisfy bllt little children and sayages. 1'0 affirm that the original doctrine as to the genuine in­spimtion of the authors and the (Iivine revelation of the Bible has not entirely exploded, wouhl 1I0W prove as ungrateful a task as that of once more rejecting Galil<,o's systom in order to retnrtl to that of tlto unknown author of Joshl\l\.

... -TIlE MOTHER-LAND UF NATIONS.

BY MIHZA ~[()OnAD ALEE BEG, F.T.R.

Civilization means Dessicnt.ion. I Imve little dOIlM that many people will he found to eontra<lict me, and will bring up ill nrray against me as (( blooming like gardens" SllJl(iry countries, the peculiar circumstances of which make them appal'cnt except.ions to the rllle,* But n true rule has no exception. The Laws of Natllre are immutable md of universal npplication-a.ntl are only modined by the action of other Laws. I appeal, therefore, to the general (,I!semble of the· fn,cts exhibited by History-not to pm'ti­cubl' isobted cases here and there. The Great Mesopota­mian pla.ins upon which the Khamite and Shemitic mces organised those mighty Empires which have transmitte<l their civilization tlll'ollgh Phrellikian, Greek, Roman, an(l Arab, to Paris, London, allli New York, and which have conse<plCutly till lately been regarded by the science of which they were the parouts as the olde~t and, indeed, 0111.'1 seats of ancient culture, have long !nill bare and almost desolate. It is true they are not wholly so, for the great st.ream-arteries of tile Tigris, t.he Euphrates, nnd the Khaboor still sweep down from the icy summits a.wl the yet woo(led savage gorges of Armenia and Kltoonlistnn, and the land too has had a great Sabbath, a holy !lny, a local" Nirvana" from tile strain of civilization. Bitt still there is a vast difference from the llayS when, as the Assyrian sculptures and reconls unmistakably prove, tlte country was intersected hy canals, allll the minor tribu­taries of the great rivers, alHl vegetation, natllral aIHI artificial, covered the bare prairies where now the traveller standing on the mound marking a huilding can search the horizon, miles around, in vain for a tree. Tl/(/t was the tt'lle foundation of the magnificence which was to depart., anti when on t.he slabs of Kooyunjik and Nimrood we see the soldiers of Sm'gon or Assarbanpal hewing down the trees of Knrkemish or Kar-Dunyas, we in effect see them in the nct of laying the axe to the roots of their own

• England, for inRtnnce, one of thc Late.~t Civilised of European lalHIH nn(l one pcculinrly favollled hy her Physical conditiollfl as well as the extl'llor,linnry 111l101lllt of Artificial 3cientific nid which has hel'lI given to her soil for thc Inst two centuries. 01' Egypt, the RIIl'face soil of which is annually renewed by thc manure from the Barharous wihl1! of Ceutral Asin.

August, i~~l.]

empire. Then followed the exhaustion and the trans­lllis::;ion of the wave of knowledge, which is Power, away to the greell fastnesses of Iran alld Media alltl the umbra­geous shmles of llilly Hf'I1as where l'an yet sporte(1 with the Satyrs and EndYlllioll still courted Selene on t.he woo(ly slopes of LatnlUs. But Hellas herself was doolllell to the same fate-the Ex hallstion of Ci viI ization overtook hl'r sooner bl'cunsl? she was s/llall, Hn(l after a brief but brilliant outbmst of Life from the hitberto cOlllparatively barbarous regions of Makedonia, she was pennanently reducell to bel' present conditioB. The vales of Arkadia are bare-tile fOllntains of Helicoll dry. So too l'ltlestine­that lalltl which Christians especially regard as the source of the Ollly True Light. Whatever may be the real vallie of that Light, which, it is IHlnlly necessary to ::my, the author docs not lHlmit as either t.be Oldy, tllC most Aneiellt, or the most l'ure and Brilliant-yet it is all historical fitct that in giving it, the physical basis whidl was literally its Fllel, was burnt out-like a motller it has been exhausted by the production of its oHspring. As II simple lIIatter of fact it is 110 longer a "laml fluwing with milk allll honey." The vines allll the olives awl the fig­trees so abllll\lant of old arc cOllspicuous by their rarity nllll the" cedars of Lebanon" have diminishetl in number till the few miserable, stunte(t survivors are ueemed worthy of havinO' their illdivillual portraits inserted liS curious I'pecime~s in the books of pious trayellers. Spain too, wiJieh once upon a time acted as leader of the world, exert­ing all influence grcater ilwn tltc physic((l bat."is of ho' enel'[Jy cuullt long sustaiu, su?cumbe,1 to ~lJ? Inlll1utably Law~, amI the evidence, unlllistakable to Illitlated eyes IS stamped upon the arid plateaux aI.HI. bare sierras where iu the times of Haunibal and SCIpIO men ll\lnted the willI bull allll the liun umler the sImIles uf vast rrimeval forests. In America is it not sllggestiye that the dry !lakell deserts of the Gila amI of Arizona shou!!l be pre­cisely those where the ev~denc~ of.cities 1'Iaillly abau(lone(1 in compmntiyely recent tllnes Illthcates that they were ~he latest" uscd up" prior to the departure of the exhaustlllg civilization for A!lahuac allll Yucatan? Alllllastly, eyen in our OWII times, do not SOBle of the physical conditions of what we arc accustolllell to think of as the" young amI rising" United States territory fully bear Ollt tl!e great fact to which I have called attention? Indeed, oWing to what lIlay be described as the abnor1l1al a.,ccclel:a!ion of the cUllllitiou::l-of the sfl'ikill[J character of a colhslOn between It Civilization arllled with the accumulated lore of hUlldreds of cellturies alHl from t.housands of unknown sources, with a O'icrantic Nntme bloollliu<1 and vigorous frolll nges of

b 0 '" f]' , . b . comparative Hest, the phenomena 0 "'xJl.aust~)()n arc .Cll!g more visibly displayed than eyer. hefore III history w.IUlIn so short a periud. It is as if OWlllg to nil exh:nonlll~r~ry ~t:dity we couht sec a child or a tree grow~llg. 1 he Americans arc proll!1 of their trellleudous aellle~clllent:; ulHljustly so. The Energy they Im"e I~eyelop?d !n ae/'y .l\1anifestation of Knowledge alltl Power IS a~tollls\l\lIg, allll will ill the ncar futme still further astolllHh the world. N one call lJIure admire allll sympathise with their great­Bess than tllO author uf tbis. But for all tlmt they, 110

Il10re than anything else ill the Uni~·ers(', ea!} hope to escnpe t.he Great Law that from Nothlllg nothll!g COI!leS, (tud all tIle exuberance allll the spleIHlour of thell' NatIOl!­Life must be at the expellse of the Ph~'sical ~asis of their ITreatncss. In spite of various agencies willclt 1('01'1.; lO1' rhein ill mitigation of the Ineyitable, the signs of wl~at I mean arc plainly visible. Have ~\'e I~O~ .~een, eSl'ecwlly ill the South {J, ml East (the earl!ClJt clv,l,.::ccl 1)((1'i13) land which was "vir"ill" two cellturie8 ago abandolled !l8

b • ""\'T t" 1 D '1'3 I' unproductive" alld the occupants I!10Vlllg .\ es Ol!

not the Government alremly sh~w !ts m:xICty. about ~11O destruction of Timber by appullltlllg C~IIIl111ttees to Ill-· \'Cstigate the lllatter I Look a~ tl!e C? tor more caref~ll cultivatiun If on European prIllclples . to . be seen III

AlIlericall scientific and l1gricultuml pu bllcatlolls. ~ bsen'e ill the same the constant llemaIHls and ~u.gS"estIOlls for " recuperatiuO''' the fields hy foreign or artIhcInI manures &c. Aml thf8 ill lliaccs where, eighty years ngo the

hunter alit! the Indian trudged through vegetable dl,ll1'i8 abuve tllCir moccasin fringes. Above all, tbe condition of" the poor" ill the great cities of the" Eastern States" appears to he already assimilatiug itself ill sOllie degree to that of the Rame class in Europe, for the same cries are heing Ileal'll-the same complaints finding tongue. And the poets-the trlle "seers"-now as ever ahle to inti­mately obtain a dim l'hantasm of the True witllOut the Exoteric Labor of the Scient.ist or the Esoteric Agony of t.he Occultist-have already ill their own partial, romantic way sketclled out tllO situation. I suppose sOll1e of my remlers may hltYe read the beautiful amI prophetic lament of the expelled Hed Indian in William Uullen Bryant :-

II Bcforc thcf'c woods wcrc ~hol'll and tilled Full to tho brim OtH' ri vcrs rail

* * * * * • 'rho Innd om' Sircs were slaiu to get SIll' II IJe 1\ burren dcsort yet."

'rhat time is probably far distant, but collle it will, as assured Iy as it has to other lands. N or is this the only example of the sallIe historical and Natural Necessity. It. has come to Persia. It is coming every day nearer to India, and the cHarts of the English wllo lmve a vague allllulHlefinetl presentimeut of its approach, only accelerate it hy their igllomncc of its tme mfi,male. Partially it came there IUllg ago, in the Ilays when the successors of Rama had linaIiy cOllfluerel1 the f( great forest of Dhun­duk," allll it was the real cause of that "relap8e from ancient glory an(lllla~nificen?e" which ~r:yan p~Lh:iots ~re HOW so loud in lamentmg, wlllch proSelytlzlllg MHlslOnanes arc always attributing to tho" (Iegradatioll of Uaste and Idolatry," amI wllich sometimes is fortunate enough to be honoured wi th the lIlaudlin sympathy of Rtateslllell who arc both in darkness as to its real cause and even, if they knew woultt bo alike unwilling and }Wlccrless to apply the tittinir rClIledic:=;. The real tnith which all of the above three'" overlook iR that aITes ago India was over-civilize(l, alltl has becn imying the °PI ice of it ever since. The so­called era of bal barislll 1V((8 n perio{l of national ,<lcI1J­a renovating rest, an(l the fI;(lvent of tllC En~lish h~s occa· siulled a prelllatll1'e a~vakelllng. Much of. tIllS applies also to Italy, between wlllch country.and Imha other. remark­abl,) analogies exist, bu~ Italy IS Ill. a!l. rCf,pec,~s still essen­tially youn<ter than IlIlha. Her "clvIlIzatlOlI began later, l.-Lsted a sh~rter periml, and the" rest" allo\~'ed her ~rom the days of Odoacer to our own 1'l'as 101lger.I11 ~olll'pansun. Still it eall be plainly seell t!mt slle too IS feellllg tl!e stlain to whiell, in common wlt.h almost every country III the worlll HOW, she is being suhjecte(l. Alone. on tl.Je earLh Africa amI Bussin, allll parts of South Amenca stIll p'rese~lt the potentialities of a lleveluping juvellility.

I (10 not wish the remler to imagine tllnt I attribute the deelille of every cOllntry ill the universe to the sing~e mechanical fact (If cut.ting dow11 the forests. I u~e tillS l lroceedilJu in the licTltt of the first st.age III the

b '" II " . '1' t' " cOllllllencelllellt of what we ca CIVI Iza lOll, • as the ontwanl alld visible sign uf that exhaustlOlL of the physical resourC?R o.f.:" .cou II try, or. fur that matter, It world, wlnc1t cIVilizatIOn lleeesRn.~'lly e!}­tails, allll as the earliest of the funeral close wlnclt luI' the till!c finishes a cOlllltry's career, w.hen the . moull~enn.g heaps of the llead cities stantlnak.ed III the nmlst of their cheerless horizons, with the dry Wlllt! of the desert sweep­iller unchecked over the lifeless expanse. That is ell1-pl~'Ltically the last" ~tage i.n the histury of It l~nd as .f dearin<1 the forest IS the first. Between them he the complicated ph~1I0!n:IH" of ~ ati.ollal Life-tho life, which, like that of an ll1dlv)(lual, kJlls Itself.

But if this is the case with the countries to which we haye referrclI, what must it be with tlmt. coulltry which ns the cradle of the earliest civilizatiolls of wldch we aro aware, may he accounted ill this sense, the oldest? And which is the oldest? asks the reader. ltat1mtlly, of comBe, 110IIC can be older than the others, aIlll if we adopt as the standard the vague idea of" cradlo. of t1!e Illllllal1 rl\cc" IJUl' search would be !\lmost equally ll~ Valli, for by

f

110 Illeans w!.ich would carry conviction to the ordinary reader, cOlIlll we llisentangle tllC inextricable web of science, traditioll, creed, legelHl and Illetnl'hor wbich ill various ways recurd tIle bistory of tbe valious countries ill wllich the intelligellee we thillk of as "bulltall" was tirst mallifested. Uivilizatioll, so called, begau illllcpolHl­elltly alld at sllndry widely-separate!l times aIHI placos­at not one, bllt a thousalld. But of t.hesc, ill the ctc1'llal "struggle for lifc," few survive(l nlHI these, thclllselvcs crossed aud moditie!l by the defunct one~, again lmttled and blended alllolig thelllselves whenever they came ill contact until a yet lIIore diminished lllllllber relllained, the cOlltluellce of which Ims prod IIce!1 tllC hroad stream of 01\1' 1lI0(lcrn culture. Tracillg back thon the elelllents which \lIake up the sUIll-total of 1II00Iel'll enlightenment, we Hnd that with tIle exception of the late Shelllitic and Aryan discoveries of allti!lullrialls, ami the general allli yet ullappreciate!l results of illtcrcourse with the East-the current of Europeall knowledge cOllies 1'1'0111 throe principal sourccs-(l) HOllle, (2) the Goths,* (:l) the Arabs (through Spain, Italy alld the Urusades). Europe was the direct heir of the Romans who inherite!l the cultllre of the Grl'eks, the Egyptians, the Etrnscans, the Jews. The Goths were the inheritors of pUl'e Aryan lore, IlIOllitie!1 by climate. The Arabs, pure Sllelllite, illherite(j the oltl cultmc of that race, also that of the Grecks ami to a less cxteut t.hat of the Jews. The Greeks drew their know­lc!l«e from Egypt, Phumikia, Assj'I'ia, ami from the old Pcl~u:",ic nations of Asia MillOI'. TIIC Egyptians alone, so far, C;'l be c)'cLlitcll wi th somothillg like all illdigcII~I\i~ civilization. The Etruscans, belicyell to be illcntical With the Khita ul' Hittites, almost certaillly borrowed hOIll the PhlimikiallR, the Egyptialls, latterly frolll the Grceks­perhaps froll1 tl~e ~:~r1y {ews .. TIle Jcws origillall.y dcriv­cd from the pnnlltl\'e ShCllllte stock whosc leanllllg allli traditions fonnell the basis of their system confessedly borrowed successively fi'om the KlJalllite Chaldeans, from the E"yptiall~, from the Hittites ami UaIllHllIllitcf., from ~ he Assyrialls alld Arabs. TIllIS we HII(1 the prillcipal stocks, so to speak, of our" lIilleteenth celltury Sciellce" reduce!! to--l. TheAryall, illherited through '1'011 tall, Kelt Greek, Homan and Indian. 2. The Egyptian thro;lgh the (heck, the Homan alHI the J e\v. 3. The Kllalllitic Ulmideall-tlll'ollgh the Assyrian, the Greek, ami the Jew. 4. The Shemitic through the Jow, the Assyrian amI the Arab, the Pho~nikiall, the EtruSC<lIl, atlll the Homan. ;j. The Autochthouic systems, the very lJallle ami record I" of which have died out, amI of the races ori"inatintr of which, except a few relllllallts, who like the na~(lue::; a~d th~ L~pps arc believed to. ropl:esent t!len.l, llll traces remalTl. I he problelll, therciure, lS to dlscn­lIIillate between the c1aillls to antiquity amI discover tllC relation, if any, between these. It would, of cot~n;e, be illipossible in this plaee to contest disputed 1'01llt8 or lliscllss the milllltim of arclul'ology. All that call be dOlle is to o·i\'e ill plain words allli rOllnd II 111 llb<.'rs what tho )IIoall~ at Illy disposal calise me to belicve as tho n}(l~t correct result. Egypt.ian anti(luities give It prett): .c?rtain li"ht to about 4000 or ;"jOOO B. C.-the probabilitieS of le~rellll allll intcrence male than double this-say 12000 B~ U. The Khamitic races of Chaldea by the mOlluments unly obtain an antiquity of about :3000 B. U., but It v.ast S(~fJ.uO\Jce. o~ tradition alll~ dedllctio.1l cxtellds belutHl that illlhcatlllO' a lal)se of tune e!lual, If lIot greater, than

" I SI . we have lloticcd with rcfercllco to Egypt. Of t Ie. lell1l tes we have less deHnite ltistorical infiH'lllatioll-tlteir earliest mallifcstation (in Assyria) occurs about the year 2000 B.C., but their lcO'ellllary lore, the ,structure of their religions nml their la~<rwl"es amI other faint illdications of the past,

'" "'. . . A b' PI 'k' I W • poillt to a vast alltl!,lUlty III fa la, IlCl~1 la, lllll ':J)'rta. Of the Autochtholllc races tllO early Instory must be still lIIore romote and wonderful, as the heyday of their development lies furthcr back than that of the histuric stocks, but owillg to the comparatively slight iutiuence they exert with reference to our own culture they lIIay be passell over here.

'Ve Ita vo no\\', 110\\'0\'01', to study thc Ilistol'Y of the rellwilling race flOlIl. wllich civilization cOliles lloWII­that is to say, the Aryalls. This first makes its appearallce ill \Vltat is called "Authentic Histury" about 1000 B. C. when tllo Kelto-Pclasgic branches of it in Europo, tllO Iranian branches in l'ersia, and the Iudian brauch in Hindnstall, are tirstbruught nuder the cogllizauce of tho European annalist.s. I f<ilY in what is culled authcllti.c history, fur lip to a tcw years ago, that was COIISI· dere(l to COllll1lenCe with Hermlotus, amI all the records uf the Orient were utterly ignored. But thoug.h p~rllHps Eastol'll history before that time may not Illlllut of such a precisi ve fixill'Y of dates as is possible with ch rOil icles subse­!lucut to the ri;e of the Helleuic writers, it is utterly Illis­len!ling to couteml that because they are not couched ill the sallie form ami spirit as Greek literature of the same class, they are tutally unable to poiut out gr<?at masses of real historic facts in due sequencc and With sOllie apl'rox i Illation tothereal dates. Of course, the further back we 0'0 the more uucertain the exact chronology of nIl lauds 1l11\~t appear to ordinary eyes. In viewing a land­scape the ditticulty of jlldging the relative H1~d ar.:tual llistance of objocts incroases in a geometrical ratIO to the latter, but fur all that, there are the chief objects, and tl!o percoption of thcm is o~ lise .. Fo~lowing . the ru}e laid down be furl' not to enter lIlto 1Illllutm', or dlflCIISS disputed points, the f'Jllowing dates in the. hist.ory of the Aryas pre­sent thelllselves as rough approxllllatlOns to truth :-

Mahrtbharata ...... ".2000 B. C. Halllll.j'l\lla (Uolollization of South India} .. .4000 B. C. Entry of Aryans into Jllllia... ... ...:jOOO B. U. Separations of the lraninlls... ... . .. ROOO B. C. Separatiun of the North-going Aryans ... !1000 B. C, Imlllediately, however, this is admitteti, we cOllie in

contact with two 'I'rcat filets. The first is that the COIll­mencelllcnt of th~ Glacial Period of Geologists is un­mistakably recorded in the II. Fargat~tl of th~ Vendidad. It has been supposell that the passage III !l'lestlOll referrell to onlinary anllual will tel's, or to Huods, but I tle(y any one to read the translat.ion as givon by ])anllstctter nll<i maintain that the actnal words admit of snch a CO\lstruc­tion if viewed with impartial eyes. The very means \~setl by 11IahkiIHI tel elllleavonr to mitigate, as fat: as posslble, the a(lVrriicillg horror, are SJlOwu, allli YlIna-.Ks\me!a evidently uei'iveil his prillcipal glury for his Wisdom lit organiiiilg tht~se. It is very appare~lt that this ac;ount. must have eitUer been recorded, wIllIe the recollectIOn ot the G hicial Period was yEt fresh, or deri veIl, from. tho allnals of sunie other race which })Ussesse(l wntten Instory stretehillcr back to those times. N ow Scientists place tho last OIacf:t! J>eriol\ some 1.10,000 or 100,000 years agu: The secolld fact, to which we shall have to draw the reader's attelltioll, is the Hindll trmlitiollal "Uhurniug of the Sea:) But we IIlW;t first gu a little back.

('1'u be continued.)

---_ ... _---SACRED INDIAN l.'REES.

Ill' THE HON. HAU BAIIAlJUlt GOl'ALHAo HUltltEE DEi;HMUKH,

Viec-P1'esidcllt of tlte Tlleusopltielli Societ!J.

III continuation of' a recent article in these pages 011 the longevity of trees, I beg to state that there are many trees in Imlia wlJich are celebrated not only for their 10lJO'evity, but fur their p~rpetual rcgclleration. The tirst spe~ies to be noticed is .. Vad" tree. It is sacred to Brahmans as well as to Jains. MallY eeremouies are per­forlllell uuder this tl'eo. It is cOllsitlered a symbol of the llestruction alld regolloratioll of the worlds. BraullIan wOlllen worship it 011 the Aslm(l* I>oorninmt called I' Vad Savitree" day. Sadhuos and Yatis of Jaills arc illitiatcd \IIlller this tree. The great Buddha is said to have held his sessiolls or "snug" uuder this tree. At }3uddlm Gaya,

• 'l'ho fourth month of the Hill<.\11 Sliil!irn!lilu ~·Cill'. t ','he l\iLY of tlt~ full-moou. '

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there is a tree \"bich is said to be identical with the one IInder wllich HlIddlm sat aut! taught his doctrilles. There are Vatl trees at Gaya allll Prayng (Allahabad). They arc callell " Aksklya" Vad or Ilever-dyiug Vad trees. Theso are held ill grcat veneratiou. Ullder the Vml tree at Uaya a ~hr:vldha* is performed by every pilgri m wllO visits the plaee. There is a Vall tn,e on tile ri \'er N arJllada nbout twelve JIIiles frolll the city of Broach. It is called Kabir Vad. It is situated on all iRlalld ereatcli by tIle river. Much of t.hiR tree has been destroyed hy floods of the river, but still a vcry large body rellwills 011 the spot. Another tree of this kilJ(! is situated ill the lilllits of tIle village of Mhusva, near .Mp.lmbleshwar. It is about fifteell Illiles frOlll tho lO\\'Il of Wai 011 tl18 Krislll1a. It occupies three acres of the land and is called" l\lImsvaella Vall." It is saill to be 2000 years old. The age of Kabir Vall is said to be greater than that of tIle Mhllsva Vad. There i~ a thinl tree between Ahmedabad alld Dakore. It is called Bhootia Vad frolll the sllpposition of evil spirits living under its shadow. Tho practical use of the leaves of this tree is to make patl'umls ur dinner-plates. They nrc extensively used for this purpose. God is said tu havo rested UII tllis tree at tho time of the Deluge.

The tree which is next to be noticed is Pimpal tree which is called ill ~allskrit "Asllwatll." It is called Brahlllan alllOllg trees, amI as SllClt the cerelllOllY of "Upanayana""/- is performed fortiJis tree. It is very sacred aud lllllllt llot be fellc(1 allli HSClI for firewood. It is bHrnt only ill sacritical tires. ::)mall platflJl'ms of stOlleR are built Hilder the tree that people may rest llIHler its shallo\\'. These platforms of masonry me called "Par." ShreD Krisllua ill the tenth chapter of Gita sal's that this tree i~ " Vibhooti" or likeness of Gocl among the trees of the eart.ll. lIt the sallIe work in the fifteenth ehapt.er it is compared to the ,,"orlll lwyillg its roots upwards aIHI braudles llowllwnnls. It is worsiJippell on mallY occasions.

T110 third species of trees is Haynn. These trees are IlbulHlant in Ulljarath. ~ume of these trees nrc 2()OO ;),ear8 old. Thl~y prodHee a berry wllieh is also ealled Hayan or J\.hirnu in tIle Deccan. They lire Rold, and caten ripe a1l(1 dry, allil are very sweet. These trecR are nut sacred. They grow \'ery slowly alltl fructi(y after fi.fty yl'ttr~.

The otIler trees which are long-livell ill India are Balllboo, l\lungu aud Pilllpran. ~ull1e of thQse are 300 years old. The tl'lldition says that tlleY live to tlIe age of 1000 yeals.

IlHiian furests cuntain IlHtlly large and lIseful trees wllich sllpply timber for builLlillg honses, but as forests arc l)eriudically cut dowll, their age call1lot be ascertained. ----_ .... ----

TIlE BEN] ELOIlIH

The author of tIle exccllent popel' under this hending makes en(pliry i.1l regan.1 to t~le Boo!.: (,If EII.oc" , am! .1 have 1I1l1ch pleasure 1.1l selllh~lg hlln tlIe follow.llIg· partIculars, which you can C1ther Jlnll~ o~' hand to !1lI11. at your own option. The title uf the hnghsii trallslatlUn IS as follows: -The Buok of Enoch the Prophet: "an apocryphal pro­duction, supposed for ages tu have be~n lost;. ~l1t discovered at the close of tho last celltury III Abysslllla; now first tmllslatell frOlll an Ethiopic IlHlllllscri pt in the Bodleian Library by Richmd Lawrence, LL.D., Arch­bishop of CaslIcI, late Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford. Third E,.Iitioll, Hevised amI En­larged. Oxford, Printell by S. Collingwood, Printer to the Ulliversity, for John Henry l'arker. ~old also by J. G. nllll V. Hivington, London. l\lDCCUXXXVIII."

In the first chapter, Enoch declares Ids converse with the Holy allll Mighty O!le, th~ Gml of th? WUI:ld ... It is a work COlli piled by a bclwver III the aJlClent JlllhcIal :tS­

trolo"y of Babylon, as provell by chapter :!, for thc heav~lIly luminaries transgress not the commands which they have received.

--;-l1,~~'cligi\>lIs rites pcrf~~'-u;c'l in hOll('\' of the ({Qad. i' l'h(l iacrcd thread·coromony.

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Ciiapter VII., section l~., is the. part. reqllirclI by your correspundent, and, thero/ure, I wIll gIve him the eutiro chapter. . l. It hapl'elled after the sons of mell Imd mllltiplied III thosc days, that daughters were born to them, elegant aIHI bealltiful.

2. AmI when tllC angels, tllC sons of heaven, heheld them, they hecame enamoured of them, saying to each other,-collle lot liS select for olll'seives wives from the progellyof lIlen, allll let liS beget children.

a. Then thei I' lemler ~alllyaza said to them: I fear that yuu may perhaps be indisposed to the perfonmmce of this cnterprize.

.t. AmI that I alone shall sufrer for so grievous a cntne.

5. Hilt they answerCllllim !lllli said: ,Ve all sweat', G. And bind oursehes by mutual execratiol1f1, that we

will not change om intention, but execute our projected ulldertakillg. •

7. TIlen they swore nltogetlJer, anll all buund them. selves by mutual execrations. Theil' whole number was two hlludred, who descended upon Ardis, wllich is the top of MOllllt A rlllun.

8. That Illountain, t.herefore, was called Armon, because they had sworn upon it, and bound themselves by mutual execratiuns.

D. These are the munes of their chiefs :-Samvaza who was thcir leader, Urakabarameel, Akibeel, Tnmie( Ratnuel; Danel, Azkeel, ~araku'ynl, Asael, Armel'S, Datraal, Auane, Zavebe, ~alllsaveel: ErtaeJ, Turd, YOll1yael, A razyaJ. These were the prefects of the two hundred angels, and the relllailHler were all with thelll.

:I O. Then they took wi ves, each choosing for llilllself; whom they began to approach, and with whom they co-babitetl; teaching tbelll sorcery, incantations, and the di vid i Ilg of roots and trees.

:I]. AII(1 tho "'OIllell conceiving brought forth giants, 12. ,VllOf;O statl\\'e was three hlllHlred cubits. These

devotll'ell all which the labuur of men produced; until it became illll'ossible to feell them.

1:3. When they tUl'lled themselves against mell, in order to devol\\' thelll;

14. And began to iujure birds, beasts, reptiles all (1 fishes, tu cat their Hesh oue after another, and to drink their blood.

U. Then the earth reprovCtI tile lImighteolls.

CHAPTElt VIII.

1. Mureover Azazycl taught men to make swords. kllives, sllichls, breastplates, the fabrication of mirrors (Illalle thelll see what was behind them), anll the work~ llI:tnshil' of bmcdets awl omameuti'l, the lise of paint, the beautifying of the eyebruws, the use of stolles of every valuable allll select kind, and of all surts of dyes, so that the world became altered.

2. Illlpiety increRsCtI; fumication multiplied; and they trallsgresscd allll currupted all their ways.

3. Amazarak tanght all the sorcers amI dividers of roots;

4. Arltlers taugltt the solution of sorcery. 5. Barkayal taught the observers of the stars; G. Akibeel tanght signs;

7. Tamiel taught astronomy;

8. AmI Asardael taught thc lllotioll of the Moon. D. And men, being destroyed, cried out; and their

voice reached to heaven. ellA I'TElt IX., inforll1~ us tlmt 1I1ichael, and Gabriel,

Raphael, ~\IIyal nllll Urie!, beholdillg this, appealcll for justice to the Lord uf Lords, GOll of GOlls, King of Kings, ngainst these crriug allgeh, or ,,'W atelIers" as they are termed. Tlte 1I10st High, tho Great alHI Holy One, Rent ArsayalalYlir to Enoch ",ith instructions to cOllceal him­self fur instructioll. Haplmel was onlerecl to Lind Azazyel as the author of these crimes, and to cast him into the desert whieu is ill Dudael. Extmonlinary as are the

THE T II E 0 SOP HIS T " [Allgllst, 18S1. ___ c===== _ :-__ =_--=~-_-_-_ ~=_----===-=-.---~ statements of this book, it is 1l0t without sublimity. CHAPTEIt XIV., says,

10. They elev:i.tell me aloft to hcavon, I procccdoll 11nW I arrivell at a wall built wit.h stcnos of crystal. A vibrating flallle slllTotllHled it" which began to strike lIlC with torror.

11. Illto this vibrating fiamo I entercll; 12. Anel drolY lligh to a spacious habitation built with

crystal. Its walls too as well as paYe1l1Cllt, "'ere formed with stonce; of crystal, and crystal likewise was the grounil. Its roof hall the appearance of agitated stars all II Hasbes ofli'~htllillg; amI alllong' them were chel'llbim of fire ill a st(lrlllY sky. A Harne burned aroll1l11 its walls alHI its portal blnlled with tire. Whon I entored illto this dwelling it was llOt as nre and cold as iee. No trace of ddight 01'

of light was there, Tcrror overwhelmed me, and a fearful shaking seized me,

21. ()lIe great ill glory sat lIpOIl it; 22. Whose rube was brighter than tile Sun, awl

whiter titan SIlOW.

2!l. No augel was capable of penctratillg to view thc fnce of Him, the Ulorious allli the Etfldgellt; nor conlll nlly morbi Lehold Him. A tire was Hawillg arollnd Him.

lIe thcn addresses Elloch ami gives hilll a mission to address tllc watchers.

UUAI''l'Ell XV. i\, Y all beino- spiritwd, 1101y, alld possess­inrr a liCe which is eternal, lla~e polin ted yonrselve8 with w;lllell ; have begotten ill enl'llal blood; have Justell ill the blood ofmcn ; and have done as those who are Hesh anel hlooll do,

7. 'J'heruflll'e, I lllaL10 1l0t ,rives for YOH, because beilJg spiritual yom dwelling is in IICavoll.

K. Now tIle giant.,; who ha,ve beell born of spirit anll of flesh, shall lw crelled II pon earth evil ~pirits, all\l on earth shall be their 1mbitntioll. Evil spirits shall proceed from their flesh, because they were create(l frolll above; from the holy watchers was their hegiuning allll primary fotl\111ati(lll, Evil spirits shall they be upon earth, and the spirits of ~h.o wi~kell shall tllCY b? callce!. The habita­tion of the Spll'lts ot ll?av~n sh~1I be III !lCa\,~Il? lmt upon earth shall be the habitatIOn of terrestnal spmts, who are bol'll 011 eartll,

After this, Enoch was shown all tlie secrets of hefwen anll paradise, [tllll was instl'llcted as to the dellige.

In Clw ptcr I~X VI H. is:t rel'e~itiol~ ofth? mllllCS of tile 1I1l1101y ~·a.tcllel's, allli of the SillS III wlllch they hall instrllcted lllaukill!l

Possibly we lllay yet fillli tile basis. of t~lO !egeJl(1 of the JJool~ of Hiloch ill n.le arrow-headed 1ll.SCl'lptlOl~S of BalJj'­Ionia., the accollllt IS only a lllore detadell verSlOlI of tliat fn,ll fr(J1lI tl'lle religion which is symbolisell in tlie mytb, in tbe Book of OCllesis, of the Serpen t Tem pteI' of woman to the kllowled,,'e of (rOOIl amI evil. SalllYflza,or Awzyel, j's thnt great f'e~pellt the L1e,,"il, allll Eve a type of the two IIlIlHlre;1 W61llell of flesh all (I blood wll!) took thcm husballds of the Beni Elohilll. The sallie idelltical COIl1-

merce was chtillled bv the European Uosicrl1cialls of the seventcellth celltlll'Y," as:sct forth ill the book written under the nallle of Couut de Gablis.

J OIIN YAIlKEH.

Manchester, May 2G, 1881.

----_ ..... ----8l'Ol'LESS JllrnWERERS.

80nHJ t.illle nogo we notell tIle elleerillg faet (fOl'. mur­derers) tliat Gcorge Nairns, a drlluken beast who lulled ~,~ 1)001' Hindu at Cal?u.tta, amI slibseq~lClltly ,;VM1." cOllvertcll . in prison was ,( safe :11 the. al'l:Js of Jesus ---;-If t}lO }Jutln who attemlell at IllS burwl IS to be beheveu, Othel' blessell rcseue's of these erring sheep claim ~t moment's nttellti on from all who are restrainecl f rolll 1Il11 nler only by the fertr of punishment after death, The latest

installce comes frolll Allwriea. A marriell wOlllan plots with a bl'lltal paramolll' to kill bel' Imsballcl so that they lIlay freely indulge in their filthy desire:'>. Under circum­st.ances of ferc.cit.y the deed is dOlle, [Lilli the wife helps tIle lover to hallg tho corpse by the lleck to a beallJ to give the impression that the poor man had cOlllmitted suicide. They are, however, detected, tried, cOllvicted allli cxecuted. Both leave written confessions. The man says :-

"l"rientlR, I fen! that I n1l1 going howe. Lon!, for .Jesus' sake, take lily soul to Thee ill be.'l\'en, where ill)' deal' wife is. Lord, kl\'C mercy 011 me. If I had rca(l tbe mble a~ lIluch, before I Game bere, as I h,n-e since, I WOUlll not, he here, I adl'ise all person~, cRl'ccially youllg pcrsol1,~, to read the Bil,Ie."

The advice is gool!. There is no snch comforting book as the Bible for llltmlcrers, Moses kiHc(1 an Egyptiall, DaYill killotl the hl1sban(1 of Bathsheba whom he w[lntell for a lllistress, and JellOvah expressly onlerecl 1IIm'd~r by wholesale of peoples guilty olily of defending their COli 11-try, allll had their virgin dallghtcrs tUi'IlOlI over to the Jewish army to what they pleasell with. The woman assassin was also blessed, She saiel :

" I llie ill the aSHlIl'iUlCe of peace with God auLl the knowledge of ~i1l8 forgi \"ell."

So everytllillg tnrned ont just as it sllOuld, except­except that the law was not qllite as forgiving' as the Lord, ~tlld the repentant converts were llUlIg. The saiuts in herwen are welcome to their now friends.

ANTIQUITY OF l1JIH VEDAS.

BY KIUSIINA SlIASTHl GODDOLE.*

JNTHODUCTlOX.

'rhe snhject I intend to write npon is n difficult one. Our old Ical'llolllllen who have reeei\'ed lIO English educa­tion, believe the Vellas to be ((1u!(Zi or without it begin­ning. In onler to ascertain their age, the Vedas IntlRt be slndied critically, amI ill the Rpirit of old Aryan thought. I k now nothing of thelll, or of the Brahmans, an(l hence alll not in a position to estftblish their antiquity by dircct evidence.

After preparing with satisfactory results, Christiall, l\lnlmmmarlan, allll.J ewish sheet calondars, em bracillg abou t n eClltllry, I was naturally (lesirolls to prepare a silllibr one for the Hindus. Hilt here the j(~lwyn n,nd V1'iddlti titlds O[

days reckon cd twice over or dropped, allil added, made the task Llifficlllt, alHllll,Y snccess but partial. Remember­ing that the present lllolle of preparill,g our calendars is an artincial one, allil hence more comphcatell than the one lISerl in days of 01<1, I began stmlyillg Jyoti::;/" I, one of the Vedfillgas or post-Vaidik works, and fOllllll that the c:tlelHlar lIsml a,nciently contained only thc first two of the " Po nc!ta-a nglls" or ti ve parts, "tithis", "nakslw,tras," week­days, " ,Yogas," allIl " karanas" gi ve~!n p,rescll t calellllars, and that the Zodiac was not then diVIded lIltO twelve eepInI parts cftlled si!flls or "rash is." Thns waS it t.hat the study of Jyuti81w a~l(l a few other nneient works cnabled Inc to form an idea of the antiquity of the V cdas Ly indirect cvidencc. It is that evidence I now offer the readers amI the ,Vestcl'll men of Sciel1oe.

l'HESUMED ANTIQUITY OF THE YED.\S.

On the Erirlmcc (if ulcl Vnidik Works.

1. IIo\\' oiLl are the Vedns, is a question to wllich Ell ropean scholars have of late paid lIluch attention. Thoy IlHve, illliced, dOlle a great denlin this directioll. They have rallsackell Ollr works, ancient and llIodern, frolll the lbys of the Vedas to those of the Pllnlna~. They have also translate(l and publishell sOllie of tlleill. But differing ill Imbits, t.hought, ancl creell from those who composed and commented upon these works, the scholars very naturally

• Anthol' of "OURCl'l'rltiollfl on the i)illtlhl Language", "A New Maratbi Grammar," "Silldhi Arithllletk", "A8tl'OUOIDY", "Gl'aha­Lilghara", "Geometl'y", &e., &0.

AUg'lIst, 1881,] THE TItEOSOPHIST.

experienced great difficulty in thoroughly understanding them. There are, moreover, certain Sanskrit works, neithcl· the originals nor correct copies of which, have yet been fOIl1\(\. 811ch nrc some of the obstacles thrown in t.he wa'y of j()reign RcholarRhip in settling tIie age of the VedaR, t.he most ancient and valllable of gell1R in the old Aryan lore. "restel"ll perseverance awl fllrther research will, 110 (louht" in course of time, give a more satisfactory sollltion of tIiis IOllg-consi(lel'cll alHI yet Illlsettled (l'lcstion. The follow­ing brief attempt in this directioll will, it is hope(l, he, nt. least, of Home usc to the OrientaliHts engag'ClI in the nbove rosearch, espeeiltlly to those hen! upon the discovery of archaic science :tIl! I Ii terat1ll'e of Arya vartta, a laml to which, RO to speak, the whole of tllO oldWestel'1l worhl is directly 01' i11llirectly imlebte(] for its civilization, arts, alltl sciences.

RANRKHlT-TJTE OLDERT LANUHAm;.

2. The Vedas are hilly flnd rightly considere(1 as tho 11 lOSt, ancient work of the Aryas, now called lIindtls from the river Sill(lhll 01' Illllns. The Sawlkrit langnaqe ill which the Vedas are written, has poured Hew life and RtrellO-th into the Scienc:e of Language 01' Comparative Grn.n~l1a1". Beforc 8am;krit was lIiscoverc(1 and studie(l by the lcarnc(1 men of El1l'ope, Philology was but a na1l1C, mHI would Imve remained in its illfancy allll tcntati"e stn,ge but, for that discovery.

The Rev. :Mr. Clark in his Comparative Orammal', 1802, Rpcaks of Sanskrit in tIle following manller :-

" No linguist" however, appeared for ccntllries to carry out this idea (i, (", the comparing of t.he properties of many tongneR, hoth learned allll vulgar). Little was done uutil the discovery an(l st,udy of Sanskrit literature gave the impulse and supplied the materials for those works l1pon t.he sul~ject which appeared in Germany dming the last thirty years." (See the Preface, page ri,)

"In consi(lel'inO' the se/.'cn ChlSSI!8, we begin with the most easterly, an (I that which also has the most ancient litem­tnrc, i.e., the Sanskrit.. It is a language which, though posseHsinO' volmni1101\s [tl}(1 valuable works in prose a1l(1 verse, ha;but recc11tly become known to Enrope. The Science of IJangunge, as it is 1I0W p11rsned, lJl:ty, illlleed, bc looked upon as olle of tho results of the establishment of British domiuion in India. For, British residcnts, Bir ·William Jones amo1Jgst the first, colIedell au(1 hrought over tho stores of this ancient literature, which (Jer111an philologists, with profouwl rese:,rch amI iIJ(I01~lita~)le pcrseverallcc, have lIlallo RubservlCllt to t.he clucHlatlOn of all the sister lallguages." (Bee pnge G,)

A botanist ascertains the age of a t.ree from the number of its branchcs and the circumference of its tl'lll1lc In like manlier, a linguist can ascertain the age of a language from the numher of its branch-dialects allll the arca of the cOllnt.ry over wllicl~ it i~ spoken. As the~'e is no other lnngnnge so pedect l1l Its for\11s,. alHI .wlt.h RO many branches allll Rllb-branches as tIle Sanskl'lt., It !ta.R becn generally r('ga,nle(l as the ohlest of all t.he literary bngnageR.

INDTA-THFl nInTH-PLACE 01<' ARITIOmTIC AND

l\!ATHmIATICS.

3. I~eavil1g aRide for the preRent. the more. compl~­catell operations of Algebra, even the sllnplest ~l'lthlllett­cal calcnlations cn.nnot be well performed wlthout the decimal scale of notation. The Jews ,,,110 are supposcd to be t.he first an!1 oldest nation 011 our globe, reprcsented the units I-fl hy the first nine letters of their n.lphabet; the t.enR 10-00 by tlw next nine letters; the first f(~1ll" JlIIlHlreds 100-400 by the IaRb fotll' letters, amI the remall!­inO' ones 500-DOO by the second forms of the letters "'11;( (11 th), ?llilll (1!lth), nun (14th), lJe (17tb),a.n(~ sud (Ulth); and they represented other llullIbers by combll1111g thcse letters acconlinO' tn their value. TIlliS, 1;', by felh (Dth leUer) nIHI ruv "(Gt.h); and 24 by kt1f (11th) amI di;l~,th (.J.tN. The Jews of the prefwnt period stIll adhere to tbls prachce of notation ill their Hebrew books. The Greeks had a llumerical l'lystem similar to that used by the JOWl'l, but

they cHrrietl it a little fnrther by using letters of the alphabet with a dash or slant litie behind, to represent thousands (1000-DOOO), tens of thousands (10000-DOOOO), allli one hlll1Llrc(1 of thotlflands (100,000) ; the last, for in­r;tance; beil1g re]RcRented by rlto with a da~;]t behind, while 1'lw Ril1gl'y represented 100. The Romans represented n,l( numcrical valnes by the combination (additive wheu the sec(lIHIletter is of ofinal or less value) of six letters of their alphabet 1(= 1), V (= il), X (= 10), C (for centum=100), D (=:;00), amI 11£ (=1000): thus, 20=XX, 15=x\r, and f) = IX. These are callctl t.he Roman nllmerals, an(l aTe arlopted by all Europenn nationf' whcn using the Roman alphabet, The Arabi! at fil';~~, followed their neighbours, the JOWH, in tlleir method ofcoillpntation, so lll11ch so that they called it Abj:1c! from the first fom Hebrew letters, nlif, beth, gimel or rather jimel, that. is, jim (Arabic being wanting in G), all(l di\,kth, representing the first four l1llits. Ell.t when in the early part of the Christian era, they came to India as tmders, they fO\1lHI the country already Ilsing for com­pnt,ation the dccimal scale of notation, which they forth­with borroweliliterally; viz" withollt altering its method of writing from left to right, at variance with their own mode of writing which is from right to left. They in­troduced this system into Enrope t.hrough Spain and other European countries lying along the coast of the Mediterra­nean alHlunder theit· sway, during thc (In.rk ages of Ell­l'opean Histor'y. It thus becomes evident that the Aryas knew well .Mathemll,tics or the science of computation at a time when all other nations knew but little, if anythillg, of it. It. !taR also been admitte(l that the knowledge of Arithmetic aIH! Alo'cbra WDS first obtained from the Hindlls"

,." I I ~H by the Ara.bs, and t.hen t.aught by t lem to t IC n estern nations. Tlds fact convillcingly proves that the Aryan eivilization is ohler than that of any other ll:ttion in the world; amI as t.he Vedas arc avowetlly proved tho oldest work of that civilization, a presnl1lption iH raise(l in favour of their great antiqllity, which is strengthened by f1, care~ fill study of what follows.

INDIA VTHI'fJm FHOl\I 'l'1m Rl~MOTI<;ST PEHIODII.

4. An em requires some remarkoUe event to begin with. In very old tinles there were no events which appeared extraordinary to the l?eople thc~l living; and hence eras or dates are not found III the anCIent works of

if PI'OfCRllOr Max Miillcr in hi8 "Chips from a Germ~n ·Workshop" Vol. II. 1870, nmlcr "Om' Figl\l'cs" writes the following:-

"The AmhR h(m'c\'er, far from c1aiming tho (liscovel'Y of the fiffurcs for thc'l1Isell"p~, 1Illanilll,msly ascribe it to IndianR ; 110r call t';ere be Hllwh duul,t, thnt, the Bmlllu:t1U1R wcre the original iUl"en­tor~ of tho~e numerical HymbulH which are now uRe.l on:'r the wl:oll! cil"ili~otl worl,1. Hilt alt.holigh thiil has IOllg been adllJittcd as true, there is consi,lerable (lifliculty when we come to trace tho challnel~ thl'Ollrrh which the firqu'es coidtl have reached, 0111(1 did reach the nat.ifll7R of Europe, ff these numcrical symbols ha.1 been unknown in Europe before the invasiou of Spain by the MohallImedan8, or before the ri~e of I\fohal1ll1lcd.anism all would be ea';ly cnough. We POSSCSR the work thl'ollgh which the. l~r?-bA, l~ndcr Lhe l<;halif Alm!\m(\n, ill the ninth cenhll'Y, became IIl1tiatc(1 mto tho sCience of In(lian ·cil'hering [\)\(1 arit.hmetic. This work of Al~1I .Jafar Mo­hammed Ben M(\;;a Alkhli.rizml was founded 011 trcnt.lsell brought from India t.o Ba",da(l in 77;3, and was t1'l1nslatcd a.gain into Latill dl1l'illg the l\Ii(1tII~ AgeH, with the title of "Algoritmi dc llumero 1lIdorlll1l" &c." ( I'ide page 284-83).

" M. ·W oepekc would, thel·tfore, atlmit two challllels throllgll which the III(lian Iignrcs reachcll Em·ope-ono passing through Egypt about thc ~hil"(l c~l1tllr! of 0111' era, whell 1I0t only commer­cial but also pllll0801'11Ic111 lIItcrest.s attracted the merchan ts of U grrayin! towards Alexan<lri'l, and thinkers RIICh as Plat.inus 11,1111 Nnmerino towar<lR PerHi:t and Illdia; another }lassing throl1"h BaO'(hti in the cir<hth centllry, anti follOlyillg the tmck of the vktorio~IA Islam. The first carrie(l tho earlicl· forlllS of the 1n(lian figures from Alcxandria to nome alHI as far as Spain, and consi<lering the activc, social, politicnl, and cOlllll1erdal intercolll'RO bctween EO'ypl as a ]taman prodnce, mal the l'eBt of the Roman Empire, w~ IIIl;st not look npon O~le pl,lilosophic,nl school, thc N?o­Pytl~ngoreall, afl the only agents III dissellllllatlllg IS? useful an 1Il­,"cntlOlI. The merchant may have been a more ad,,·e agent than thc philosopher 01' the Rchool-ll!as~er. The l>e,co1Hl carried t.he latCL· forl1l~ from 1l,tg(lad to the pl'lllCipal countrIes conq~lered hy' the

. ]{ haliff! with t.he exception of those wherc the earher 01" Gober fignres (so calle.], bccause a tablc or h~ard ~ove1"ed with fine dust or Gober waR llse,1 for the purpose of C1phcl"lIIg) had alrcady takeu firm root". ,'I,;e. (ride pago 290-D1),

No TILE THEOSOPHIST, [August, 1881.

finy countl'Y. This circumstance has given [l, plausible reasoll to every country to take pride in its antiquity, Rut ant.il}\lity, as it is unllerstood at present, is a compara­tive, alHI not an absolute term. A natioll, however immlated, becomes wiser as it grows ol(ler. In very nntiql1e tillleg there was but little or no communication between di~t:tnt, cOl1ntries, and there was 110 llC~etl of it, as the pO!,l1lati()ns tlien were limited, f\1111 tho countries I1xoulltl l1noccl1pie(1 and 11lIcultivatml. Hence the greater or less antiquity of one nation, when cOlJ1pal'ml with another, can he ascel't,ainc(l only hom tIle 1l1l1ll1JUr and variet.Y of its 01(1 work:;: writtell hefore the opell­ing of its intel'course with other countries. Tho authon­ticated parts of Illdian histor'y do not tell w; that the truo Ar\"l);; evor wout, out of t.heir l:lJlIl as trn(lesllIen, conCjllcr;)rS, or kllowledge-seekers. ()Il the contrary, t.hl'ro is historical evidonce to sllow that the JleopleR of lIlost dist:tJlt cOlll1trieR, and from the remotest period, often visited India., the eount.ry of the Aryas, then known as the Goldell .!'({/IIl, to gut in exchange its oxeellent amI highl'y rellO\vned :tJ-t.ieles of tra(le, for which it was then so jl1fltly ci.llebrated, to ask protection allll shelter, 01' to aC!]lI iro know­ledge. Tlte w holu of ElII'ope with the cxccption of a snlall portioll at'OlllHl the Meditcrl'anean, plllngml in t.hoso days in a statu of eOlllplete barbarism which bsle(l till the eOlJ1ll1ellCClnellt of the Christian era, hall no history of its preceding' periods, The mouel'll EnropeallR receiv­ing e\·cr.Yt,hing, evun religioll, frolll the cOllntricR bonlering Oll~ thc 1tlcditerrallcan Sen. which has heon the meal1fl of civili7.ing' ElIrop(), their belief.q and opinions wore formed acconlillgl,Y. Dlll'ing tho centJll'ies which witnessell the rise and fill! of the ROJl1an Empire, and later, that of the great Kltnlifnte of J3agda(l all(l Salll:u'cand, int.cl'course with IIHli:t was constantly kept np all(l widcncd, until ill the fiftccnth Cl'ntllry Enrojloan entcrprisc in search of an oee:wic pasf;nge to India, illlpro\'ellllflvigation aIHI l1iscovercd SOlltbeJ'll Africa all(l America. SlIbseqllent dosc cOlJtact. of European natic'lls with India, gave them nn opportllllity to becomo aC([lminte(1 with its lcarning, nncicnt :t1H1 lI1odern, the stndy of which has now clJang'c(1 the long-cherish ell antI olH:-sided opinion alHl helief of sOllle of tho Oriental scholars of EHJ'opc alld America regarding' the Aryan learning, languagcR, all(l religion. E'tirthcr I'('search alit I stndy of the anciont Indian philo­sophy and literatnro, showing that the Aryas \\'ere f:Il' 1II0re a(lvanced in knowledge of every kind aR in the arts aIHI seiences at a time whon other nations wp,re yet in their infancy, will prove that the latter owe all t1{eir advancolllont t.o the former. A.wl this fact again clearly proves the gruat antiquity of tlto VedaR.

(To be conti,welZ,)

... 'l'IJE FIVR-PUINl'ED 8TA n.

DEAR MADAlIlE,

In the J nly number of the TlIE080P1Il8T I notice the star-shapotl figmc mentioned ill two places .. I t.rie(1 the fjffmc in more than ten or fifteen cascs, III all of which,"'I hall wOll!lerful snccoss, with the oxeeption of on Iy ono caso whoro the patient was a girl of ab~ut 1;)

nlltl the pain, thollgh brought down to the rOlllt of still« c:1,nsed ffreat Rwdlin rr there, and sho did not . 0' ~ - 0

sleep the whol!) night. Perhaps this was o\~ing, to Illy (h'awing the fignro too hastily, I tallght tIllS hgnre to my cook alltl to Illy lmlcar both of whom tric(l it ill a few cases witho1lt Hony fa.ilure. I have Rince then leal'l\t from one of my friends that it is the Clwkl'all!· of a ccr­tain Hindll God whose name consists of six letterR. About livo days ago a woman camo to me (for in this village I am consitlere(l the best cl1l'cr in scorpion-sting,) whORe pain Waf; hrought (lawn to the point of sting hy the application of this figure by one of Illy friends to whom also I taught tho figure, for further treatmont. I took

• A 'S/\JJi'krit word rueanillg Wheel oj' Circle.

up It pie.ce of piI;per alHl drew the figlll'O putt.ing the six letters 1Il tho SIX spaces and placed it IIpon the poillt of sting, awl I was snrprised to fi lH[ that the pain was allllost cured, But as this was ollly one caso I do not like to lay beforo yonr rea(lers the six letters so SOOIl, nIHI I shall do so wholl I have sufficient reasons to helieve t.ho eflicacy of the letters. In all the case" I c1ll'e(1 I drew the fignre with Illy fillger. bllt, never with a pen alHI ink. I think it is illlmaterial in what, way you dralv the figme so lon.~' as yon draw it carefull'y aIHI slowly. ,"ViII

som3 of our Christian friends try by

~ puttillg .",1/0 va, or SOtHO name or attri-"'f1 .' -~7 hlltO of God COllsiRting of six lettels within

70 ',1. the figure as showll in the margin, or ,ill // 'I some other way alld inform whether the

pain at tlJO point of sting is aJso cnreel ? I say ((Iso, hecallse by simply drawing' the fignre the pain is considerabl'y relievCll and is ollly at the point of sti ng, and that., too, not so 1m(1 as at Hl'st.

Gth .Jlll)" H!Hl.

[ beg to remain, Madame,

Yom most obed ient Servant,

S. T. VF.NKATAPATY.

.1'.'otc h.1! tlw RdilOI'.-Of Inl!) 11 IImel'Oll~ 1ctt.el'~ havc Lee n I'cceil'etl in the'l'ln:oSOl'lIIST ofllc{) concerllillg the emcacyof the my"tniolls Pentngl'nm. 0111' Ellstel'll rcaders IIrc perhnp~ llllnW/trc of the ~l'cat illlpori.tJlIt'o I!,ivt'll hy tho "Tc~tl'rn Kllunlisls t.o thai, sign, nIHl, thcl'efol'(" it may he fOlllltl expediellt to ~ily n few words nbout it, jUHt 1I0W, whell it is comiug 80

promillently befnre the 1I0t.icc of 0111' render". Like the six­)loilltcd Btlll' ",Ilich is the fignre of tho 11111 r.J'ocosm I the fil'c­pointed • !til' hilS itR own decp symbolie signifiennce, fOJ' it represcnts tllc microcosm. The fOl'lllel'-the "dollllie triangle" eompo!'",tl of two trinngle;, respectively white :I I Itl black­crossed nnd interillcetl (OUI' Socief,J'~ sYlllhol)-kllown itS" Solo­mOil's Selll" in Ellrope.-nnd ns the " Sign of Vi"hllu" ill JJI(lia,-i~ mndo to represent the nnh'erFfll spirit Illl,l mllilel', onc white poillt which symbolizes t.he forlller ascelldill~ heavell­wllrd, fllld t.he two poillts of its black t.rillllgio inclining pflrth­wlIn!'!'. 'I.'hc Pcnt.n~l'fIm nlso represents ~pirit IIntl mau'er hilt only ns mnnifest.ct\ -llpon earth, Emblem of the microcosm (Ol' thc "lillie IIniverse") faithfllily mirroJ'ing in ilself tho macrocosm (01' the grent (0811105), it is the sign of the supre­miley of humHn intellect 01' spirit OVOl' 111'lItHI matter.

;\[ost of Ihc Illy~terips of Knhalistic 01' ceremonial mngic, the gno"ticnl symhol" nntl all I,he Kflbalistic keys of' Jlrophecy arc stJln­me,1 lip in t.hat. flllmhoyant l'(~ntagrall1, considered by th.} practi­I.iollel's of the Chn\deo-.Jewish Kabala flo tile 1IIost polcnt magi­cal i1Hdrlllllent.. In JlJagit~al CI'oeat.ioll tlllrillg whiell the slight,·st hesitation, mistako Ol' omission, becomes fatal to the opcrntor, tho stnr is nlwnys on the nlt.ar bc:u'ing the illclq}oe, lind othel' offer­ings, nlJtl ulltler t.he tripOlI of invocat.ioll. AccortlilJg to the position of its point~, it " calls forth good 01' IJall spirit", Hlltl exppls. ret.llins or eaptnres thom"-the Kahlliists inform liS. "O(~clllt qllalities nrc 1111e to t.he agenty of elemental ~pitilf," FfI)'R Ihe lVew American C,'1clopmriia in nrtiole" Magic," t.hll~ making lise of thc fltljcct.ivo "Elemcntal" for ccrtain spirits­R \\'01'11 whieh, hy the bye, the spiritualists licensed the Theoso­phiM,g of havinl!, coined, wh'~ren~ the N. A. c,'1clopwr/ia was published twcliI,y years before the hirth of the 'l'hcosophit~al Soeiety. "This JIIystoriou;; ligurc (lhe five-poiuted stilI') must bc cOII~ecl'lltetl by the foul' elcment.s, breatilt·,1 UPOII, sprinklc(l with \ValeI', nlHl drietl in the smoke of pJ'eeious Jlerfllme~, nlltl then (he n:lmes of greflt 8pirif,~, 11-; Gllhriel, naphael, Oripldel fllltlilte lettcrs of t.he sacl'o,\ tctJ'flgrlllll all,l ot.hol' Kflbalistical wortis, flrc whiRporcd to it, and arc inseriheo\ tlpon it"-fultIR Iho C"jclopmdirJ copying its informfltioll from tho ho()k~ of (I\d l\Ic,!iroval Knbali5ts, alltl lhe more mo,lel'll work of Elipha~ Levi-Dor/Jlles et Ritllel de la Jlallte Magic. A modcrn Lontlon Kahali;:1, styling himself all " Ad(~pt,"-a COI'J'cspolitlellt in. London RpiritullI pnper, deridc:'! East.erll Theosophy nlll\ wOllld-if he conltl-mnke it subservient to 1.110 .lewisll Kubala with its Chnldeo-Phcnikmall Angelology and Demonology. That -----~-------~---~---- ---~---.

• Tho dono!o triangle 011 tho right romer of the 'I'IIEOSOPIIlST W". oy 1\

mi,tako of the enATa,'or re,-ol'$o,l, i. r. placo'! npsido flown, So is the Egyptian Tn", with the snako coiled r011l1d it., in the opposite cot'ller of tha tilio-pago cover. 'l'he lntter donblo sign when dl'flwn correctly represcnt" tho nnn.gmm of tho Society-a'!', B.-and the hend of the slInko o\\"lIt to tnl'll tho opposito wny.-ED. 'l'1H:OS.

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IIcw Caglio~lt·o would Jll'obnl>ly cxplain the powet' nn,l ellieany of t.lle "fil'e-poillted Rtm'" hy the illtrl'fcl'Clicc o( thr good" gCllii," orokCll hy him; t.ho e Jin.~ which Sol"moll-liko he hllR IIP­plll'rllt.ly hottled lip by ~c:dillg the mOllth of the vcssrl with Killg ., Solomoll's SCIII" FCl'vilely copic!1 by thnt mythioal po.tellt.atc fl'oll1 the IlI,iiali Yllishllo"n ~igll, t()g,~thel' wit,1t nt.hrl· thlllgs bl'()II~'ht Ollt. by him from t.he lIo-le" mythicill Oplll'l' if Ids \'('ssels ('1'('1' \\'Pllt thNc. But the cxplallatioll gil'!~11 hy tlllJ TheOl'ol'hict.s 1'01' the f)eca;:iollal FHcrc"s (.htaillc!l in' rclieY­illg paill (,"ch :.:~ 8corpion-bitcs) loy tIle IIppli,~al.ioli of tho l',)IIt.agl'i1111-a Sllcer;;s, I.y the byc, wld"h wi t II the kllowlrdg'J of tIle enl!:'c l'ro,llIcilig it, lIlight. with SOll1O ppr:,oll~ hc­rOllle l'erm:lIH'lIt. nll!l f'lIl'o---is II little It·ss SlIjltI'l/rltl/l'ol, llll.1 I'<'.ied, cI'cry theory of " Spirit" IIgrllcy accoillplish­hg it. whet,hol' tllc!'c ~pirit,s I.e ciailliod lil111101l 01' ele­?IIental. '1'1' 11 C, tlle {ice-poillted .~l/(/Jle of t.he ~tlll' has ~omctldllg to do with it, as will he 1I0W explained, hilt. it. dl'­pCllds 011, 1111.1 is flilly SUh"'I'I'i('lIt to, flIP ddcf flg('lIt, ill t.ho opcl'atioll, th!' (Ill/lUI flilil the oll/e(1(/, of thn" lIl:lgienl" f(ll'!~e­ll(j~I'\N WII.L. All the pamph!'rllalifl of cPl'pmollial 1llflgil',-' pel'fIlIllC~, vcstmcllt;:, ill"(~rihcti hicro(fll'pldl~~ nlld 1l1111l111H1l'i!'H lire g0.o:l, 1!l1t. fill' I,he l)('giIIIiCI' ; t.he "'11'('ophyto whose power~ IIIll'C to hc dcn-Ioped, his 11ll'lItnl nttit.lldc Iillrillg' t.he opernt.iol1~ (lelineti, n\l(~ his W'LL etilll'nted by eOIH'I·"tralill~ it. on ~ueh ~ylllhol~. Thc 1\lllmli~tie nxiom' thllt, Ihe 111ngieinn {'nn ltl'l'Olile the 1Il0,tpl' of t hl' I'~ I ('lllC'n tnl Spi I'i toS 0111 Y loy ~ul'pnsfi II go thelll ill COlllllgC nlld fI'HlIIeit.y ill theil' 0\\,11 pl('IllCllt;:, has nll nllogorienllllcaldlig. It. wns hilt to te;;t, t.he III Ol'll I strellgth nlld dllrillg of the ('nlillidntn thflt the terrible trilll~ of illit.intiull illto I1l1ciellt lll),stl'ri,'s lI'C're illl'cilted loy the Idl!rol'llalits : II I III hellce the Jlcophyte who h:1I1 pl'Ol"{'ll lellric;::s in II'ldcr, fir!', nil' nllt! in the terrOl'il of a CYllllllCrillll Iinri,lIess, wns recoglli,cti as Ilal'il'~ bccomo tho ll1I1StCI' of the UIHliIlO:', the Slllnlllnllticl'S, Sylphs flllIl GIlOIIICS. ITo I ifill "forccd tll!'111 illt.o oll('di(,lIl'e," 1111,1 "eolilti oyoke 1I1e spirits" fol' ha\'ill~ stlldie.l 1111,1 nl'qllaillt.('!l Idillself with tile 1Iitilllntc c;:sellce of the occnlt, or hidden lIntllre nlHI thn I'csl'ceti\'c proprl'ties of tll(J EIl'lllents, h!' c('ttld PI'OtillCp nl will thn lIH,",t, wOll<lprflll IIlllllife,tllt.ions or " oeclIlt," phellolllClia by tl,I) ('olllIJillat.if,n of slleh jll'oprrties, combinations hiillcrfo Ul1k110Wll to the pl'ofilllC', ns pl'ogre,,~h'e nliLi C'xot.eric ~eiellc(J w lti!~h pl'oceeds slowly nlld clllitiollSly, CUll mal'olinl its discovl'ril'~, but, OliO by 0110 :lIlll ill theil' ~u('ecs~il'e ol'dcl', fol' Itithr'l'to it Iios ECOl'llCd to It'ol'll fl'oll1 t.hOf'c ",Ito hlill grn~pe,1 011 tlte mptcrics of lIat.llre fol' 1()11,~ ngrR Il('fol'c. l\Inlly nrc t.1le ocrlllt "ccrd . .; fCl'l'ct.cli Ollt II)' hel' nlld "Tung frolll tho 01,] Illngi,~, nnll yl't it willllot,gi\"cit.(,I'l~']it CYCll for th:lI, wltich hns beoll prove I to hn\,() lJ1!('n kiloWIl by tho allciellt, c"oteri,: ReielltiFt~ 01'

"AtlcI'U,'·. Bllt, 0111' SlIloj;'ct IllIISt. noi. bc digrcs~('!l frolll, nll,l wo lIOW t.1I1'1I to tllo lIlystel'ions illHuolice of thC' l'cntflgl'alll.

"Whnt. is in II sigll" ? will 0111' rca,it'l's flRk. "Ko mol'c thnn ill a llalllO" we shnll I'rplY-llothillg !.'xccpt Ihnt, fI~ snitl nhovo it helps to eOllc!.'lltl'flte the IIUC'lItioll,IIOIiCC to IInil lite WILL of thn operatol' 1.,1 n certain spo!.. It-. is t.he IIlngll(,ti(~ 01' me~meric fillill Howill" Ollt. of the fill0Ci"s (,IHI" of the 1!IIIId t rncillg' tlte H"lIre which ('III'OS 01' nt, Ica~t stops the nClite I':till ill hCIlIII'llilillg tl~e 1I0n"eR :lllll Ilot the figlll'c pCI' $C. 1\11<1 yd, thC'l'e nl'c SOIllO pl'otieil'llts who nrc aide t.o dCIlHInstraf() t.hat thc .five-pointed stal', ",ho,ll poiltlR l'epl'eselit t.ho Ii 1'0 conlinl lilllh, 01' thoso ('llllllllel,; of m:lll-tile he":1I1, tlte t.wo ImllB flllIl the two I!.'gs­frllill ",hcllcl' thl) llle"llleric CIIlT('llts issllo tho stl'OlIl!CSt, tile Fiml'le I.l'fIeillg' (,f thnt figllro (a tracing IH·(HI.ICCII with iiiI' moro l'ilicllcy with" tho fillgcl' ellds thnn witlt illk, ehnl\;: (,I' pcncil) lll.lp('ll hy II stl'Ollg de~ire to nllol'int!' pnill, will \'cry oftcn force ont. IIIlCOIlSeiliusly thn h(,lIling /lilid fl'om nil theEe ('xtr(,lllitic~, wilh fill' 1ll0l'e ftll'co tllllli it otlll'l'wise would. Faith in tho fj"lll'O is Inll.sfol'lllcd inio illtcilse will, find the IlIl.tcI· illto t'~l'i"'y . 1I11t! en"r"y frolll wltlltsoel'el' fcelill" 01' ('lIllfe it mny 1)j'O('~('d: is smc - t:J I'<,IIol1l1!1 f")lll('whcl'o fllld'"' striko the pllll~O with 1Il0l'e 01' Il'~~ fOl'ce ; nllli lIalllmlly l'IIDIIgh that. plnce will be tho Incfllity IlJlOII whieh tho nt,t.clltioll of tho opcrntol' is lit tllnt, 1Il0IlH'I;t eOIlCl'Ilt.rntct! ; Hilt! hCllce-tho cure llti.rihntc,l I.y the solf-igIlOl'lIllt, IllCi'IlH'ri,cI" to the PEN'l'A<:HA~I. '1' 1'.11 Iy 1'l'lIllirb Shcllillg I.llnt, "alt.hollgh magic has o!'n:'cd t.O IJe nil ol~)cet of ~criolls fll.t.(,lItion, it ha~ hall a hist.or)' whieh lillks it. 011 the 0110 hant! with the highe;;t thcme;; of sYlllholislll, t.hcosophy IIlltl cnrly l'cien!'e, as well ns on t.ho ot.hel' \Vit.h thr ridicl1loll~ 01'

trngicn\' !lplllsiOIiS of tho milll}' forms of tleI110ll0HHlllill .... , .. Ill Grl'pk tht'lIl'gy !.lIe rllills of It ~npcriOl' illte\ligc'lIcc nIHl Cl'cn of II pol'l('ct ~yst(,1ll nrc to he fOlllld, wldeh wOllld I'ench fnl' hoyond the horilO:OIl wh.ich the Illost alleicllt written rocol'lls presellt 1.0 us ... allli pOl'tions of the snille Sy:otOlll Illay be discovered in the

Jewish Kahnla ..... Thot" pet'fect systcm"is 1I0W ill the Ilnlllls of II fCI~ pl'ofieients in t.he Enst. The If'git.iIllIlCy of" Mngic" mny he IltsJllltet! loy t.he bigots, it.H I'clllit.y as nn nrt, I1llcl Mpecially ns II sciellcc, can sClll'cely be douhtet!. Nol' is it lit, 11\1 doubted by t.he wltole Hornlill CHdIOlie Clcl'gy, thon~h thf'il' fPHt' of it.s 1)('(:0 ning n t,orrific witlless n~nillst the legitimacy of theil' 011'11 nsepl1,lplicy fOl'ce;:; tltem to sllPllort the nrgllmcllt. that, it.s !l1arvels Ilre 11110 to lllaligllllllt spirits 01' "litlicil Illlgcls." III Europe it. Itll~ still "II fmv It'Hl'Ilc,l nll,l respectable profei'f;ol's nll!l ndepts" admit,;; the ~nlllC C,ljclopCfdia. AlId, thl'llngltout tho " PngHIl" world wo !l1l1Y u,lt! it.s rOlllity is fllmost uni"el'solly ndlllitt('ti n.llli its pl'of1c"icllts nl'o nnmerous, though thoy do tl'Y to nvoid the nltelltioll of tlto soeptioal wori,l.

GOD IS pnOSPIJORD''S.

TilE NAT BARI(ET pll\'portlng to give the" Orierin of the Buddhist Scriptures" is a clll'iom; pllblicltt.ion w~ have just. receive,l froll1 Ha,ng'oon, Bll\'ma,. It. is a missionary jou1'llal etlitell by Mrs. Eleanor Mason, an,l is brimflil with symbolical (\,!1(llllystical lore, very interest,ing to thoRe who are well vCI'Re,l ill the Riamese and BlIl'lnese rcligion an,l lang'uag'e, who POSSORS a fnll knowlellge of tho As,yrio-Bahylonian din,Il)C'ts, me aeqllaintcd with spheuo­graphy and paJn'ogl'aphy ; and feel, moreover, pet'feetly at home with Bndllhist, Hchl'ew, amI Chaltlean symbology. The rest of the pl1 blic will have to ncccpt Mrs. Mason's a"flertionR on fnith. Tllere is one statement, though, in t.he first. Hllmber, which will appeal' clear to both tho Icarne(1 an,1 the profane, and, considering it is fOllllrl in a missionary organ, it (loes the greatest credit to the eclitor's t.l'lIthflllness. Rnys the editress:-" English people Ray 'we COllltt ncvet' hecollle one with idolator",' anll the Bl1rmese sny 'we can never gi\"e IIp Ollt' religion' "-all,l adds :-" Anll ("m'e i8 ?lOt the s!if/lltest sirrn of it.~ bei n,1l uiL'en 1(,]), whatever may be said abollt it. The allcient (( wl g(JI'[jI!OIlS s,'/8(e I/l. (~l 1J IItllf hi Inn has been 110 1110l'1!

a/lc('ted fly the 111'e(/('hin,q of Cll,)'istiall it!l thlln ([ fell) S'!lOll'eJ'8 (!i' 1'0 i /I (~rti'rf,~ t!1C o('eon" ...... (italics OlIl'S) ...

" The core of the religion hns not heen reache,l by ChriR­tianR, an(l t.he core of Christianity hal' not heen reached hy Bllddhist$." Sllch is cert.ainly the trlle state of things ill l1uddhi,qt amI other hell/hen count.ries, alld we all. know it. ,Ye are gh1l1 to fil\(l the allthor so frankly admitting it.

Hers is a cllriou!) and often highly intcresting publica­t.ion, thollgh after perllsing with t.he tltmost attention the first three'nlllllbers, we cannot say that we are enable(l yet to make head 01' tn,iI-of its aim. As we lllHterstaml it, however, the ingenllom; c(litol', ",bile seeking to l'econ­cile the i,tolatrolls croeds with Christiallity, tries at the same time to COI'I'oct the little tlllpleasant "blunders com­JIIitted by the allthor of G('Jwsi<~. If we have to t.ake her wont-God is-jlhosplw,·l[s! For Rayfl she (pal'. il p. 1. N lIlll. 1.) "The life wns the li[jht of men" hence it wafl phosphoric light ...... nnd Rt. ,Tohn says of this light, " It shineth in (brkness," and that iR just what phosphol'l1s (loes, alld what the first light did in the boginnillg, when GOlt sairl ' Let Ligllt be, aml Light was' " ...... Hellceforth then the vexed point is settled. In verse 4 ch.] of Gellesis "GOll rIi viding' the light from darkness" withollt ally sun being' yet crente,l-diYided-" Phosphorescence" froll1 non-phosphorescellce; and, thercforc, IS there any 10llerer lleed for allY one of remarkillg with more 01' less it'­rev;'rence t.hat ha~iner create(l the 81ln Oll day the j'onl,th ,'" " t.here conl,l not he allY f?vcnin[j or jIlOI'lliH[J of the first three days for Gor! to reckon by, nor s('e "that it was good?" Hence, the desire of tIle editor to reconcile in that !leW light. the idolatrons religions with Christianity, awl explain by the" phosphorescence" of the latter the too obscme symbology of the former. So, a fashionable kerosine lam p, patenter! and improve(l by model'll art, is expected to throw a HO(Ht of ligllt ill a poor nat.ive hut illuminater! bill. by cocoa-nut oil in cups of clay. Per­challce, the latter iight might be the safest, both ways, as it

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is less dangerol1s, and, being more primiti"e and natural, may come nearer to the standard of truth; yet snch is the real aim of the pUblication healled-"Mrs. Mason's Key to the HilhIen Gon-LANGUAGE of 18G2, kev to the Zend­Ave~ta, t.o the Vedas, to the Logos, to the "Pitagat., and to all the Languages, Sciencef!, and ScriptUl'es." AmI that " koy" seems to have 1l1l10cked so far tho Tabel'llacle of Trll~h that to tIle query propoulIdO!I hy tho anthor: "whero dill the Bnddhist 13iblo or Piing-at originate?" Tho response given is: "It came from Syria amI the BHTTIHH ISI,ml" (! : ) Now, that is promising, 'Ve wonder wllether Mrs. Mason, who seoms to have studied hOI' suqject extell­sively has ever renll the volnminons works of the anthor of "i~noch, tho Book of God" ; "Commentary 011 the Apocalypse"; "Intl'Olluction to the Apocalypse"; and so forth? These are the pro!luetions of a well-known English mystic whom, he havilJgjust died, after publishing his works anonymously, we will not name in 0111' columns. But the works left by him are worthy of perusal and COlll­

paring !lotes, with tIle issue under notice, as t.1lOy also treat of the smno subject. Only his {Ierivations amI the conclusiolls he COllles to nre quito the reverse of those con­tn.ine{l in the Nat Bash·ct. Theil' aut.hor shows, as plainly fie; facts :tll{l evidence can show, that the only religion from wllich no other religion has ever borrowed any tIling, was Christianity which, however, lias borrowell from all others b1lt Ims nevor given credit for it to any. \Ve do Bot mean to lliscourage the well-men,ning lady, whose labors alllI researches mllst have been exhaustive, and whORe object is JIIeritoriolls, since slle pronliRcs to apply all the lll'ofit.s of Iter work after paying costs to tIle cause of Female Education in Burma. 'Ve are afl'lli{l though that lwl' diflcoveriefl will fail to convince the scept,ic, or recon­cile the Bml<lliist philosophy to tllC (;hristian faith, anu dee 1.'('/wii" nor will the fnt.nre generation of Burmese females be very IImeII bellofltted lIy beillg brought to leal'll that the" ~ragic Queen" of Sheba was Tatlu1.,qa.ta and " clearly a BlHldhist" (7), amI the" Magic King" Solomon SmnoHa-allll ":t Daalite-Christian-J ew" (?) whatever the latter mystic awl ann.chronitical combinations of (t!ljoctives may mean. Our century is an age of facts; al~ll Rpcculative theories with :t view to trace the ong-Ill of rnet:tphysical conceptions, lllUSt. stnnll on a firmer, O'roUllll tha.n mere assllmption. The Burmese name Bhm'atlwkl'n may mean "J'ehovah" in the conception of Jl\dson and of the author who translates it" the GOll ;" hnt no true Rntldhist so long as he is :t Bl\ddhist, will give Joom to :t personal Go{lin hifl religion, least of all to a Jehovah whose imagery if! entirely opposed evell t? the pantheistic lYat of one of the B1IrlUese sects. Belllg a Bud{lhist all{l somewhat aC([1l1linted with its symbology 11IHlcr its various lH1.tional fOl'l\1s, we conl{l cnsily point Ollt ReyernI o'\n.rin<T miscollCel)tions from :t Bnrmese Rta\1l1-b . ..,

point in the fin;t three nlllllhers of tIle Nat Ba.sl"et, for 1H80, bllt. for lack of space and the litter worthleSRl1ess of tlle attempt in rcganl to Olll' remlers, For the Bud­dhists will not rea{1 the Na,t lJa .• l.:et in English, mul the rest of Olll' subscribers would lIeither llIHlerstalH1 nor see the point notwithstanding the "phosphoreRcence" sprea(1 upon its partes, Hence, notwithstanding thA author's illgenuity ill the collation of philological {lerivations of Bl~rmese 11,1\(1 Siamese names froIll Syriac and Assyrian wot'lls intended to prove the identity of Jehovah with the Syria;l great God Baal" The Lot'll anll Giver of Lifo" (with which itlontity we fully agree) amI tl~e RlIl'mese Bhill'a-her argum<Jllts are too far-fetched to Impress the reader's mind. The life which is" the li,qht of men" (John I, 1-0) may 1Ia,;e been but a "phosphoric" light meant for the dark as, according to 'Mrs. Mason a. it shineth ill darkness," yet to llemonstrate its i<]enhty wit.h "the food of the Nats" requires a thorough knowledO'c of that food in its esoteric meaning. It iR alwa)~ {lano'crolls to draw conclusious frolll tIle dead-letter ll1e~ling of sentences containerl in nny scrip­t.ures-the Buddhist Scriptures ahove all; for, as in t.his case it, might be pl'Ovoll 011 the authority of leal'lled' Burmese priests an utter misconcept.ion. Perflonal-

ly, we are qllite willing to admit that the pllOSph01'US of which the "life pills" that "may be bought in the Rangoon Medical Halls for two annas a pill" are of "the same" subo stance which prolluced the "very same first light which the Apostle wrote about" (J.Yaf Baskct No.1 p. 1.) ; for, we are as ren.dy t.o maintain that such "life pills" when prepared by skilfnlhallds anti due as they are to lmman science :tn{lllif>covery, arc far more effectual in maint.aining man's health-hence his life-than any metaphorical Divine "Life" allll "Light." mentione(l by the oyer-Platonic aut.hor of J olm's Oospel. It if> becalHiC we know that a physician with snch "pills" whether, phosphatic or others, has ever proved more beneflcial to humanity than either he who is allcged to have becn "sent to bem' wi tness of that Ligh t" or he "that woul{l be forced upon the heathen as tltet.rneLight." that we set ourself against the publication. HiglIly in­teresting to the educated reader, it can prove but pernicioml to the mystically illclined, who are unable to judge for themselves, Its strained deductions neither command ac­quiescence, 1101' do they teach any "language of God" other tlmn that of the Christian Scriptnres, And though entirely miscalculated to hring the various religion" to anything like an agreement, it is evidently one morc allll new attempt out of the 1I11mberless other attempts already made to christianize the "idolatrous nations" securing their belief untler no JIIatter what falM lJ1'(3tence,~. The methou in this ense, is, however, {luite a novel one; and every credit is due to the authoresfl who presents to ns tllO "W orcl made flesh" IlIlller finch a pliaJ'maeenticnllight.. \Ve draw the attention of the ]eal'lletl Bible-dissectors to the NAT BARKET.

---' .. ----IlINDU PIWPIIETS AND ASTROLOGERS.

ny JAJlISHED.JI DORAB.JI KHANDALEWALA, F.T.S.

Colonel MeadowR Taylor, the well-known anthor of " Confessions of a 'fhng, Tara," he who had during hiR long career in India :tcquired an int.imate knowledge of the natives of this couutry and gainod their warm affec­tion and respect as few Englishmen ever llo, thus ,speaks of hiR experience of Astrology in two instances:-*

" My next Imlt was at 'fool,iapoor which I found a most pictnresque deliO'htful spot. The uay I Hl'l'ived, a Brah­min enterall my'='Onlcltel''I'Y 01' Office-tent, snt down (luietly ill a comer an;l after ren1'1iuing a while silent, rose and sai{l-' I h~ar YOIl speak Maltratta; is it so ?' 'I am only a beo'inner,' I replied, 'hut I dare say I can follow YOli.' ,tam strllck with YOllr faco' he cont.inneo, 'and I should like to sec your hand a.nd cast your horoscope, Do you know when yon were horn '? '

" I gave him t]le date, and he proceeded to examine first my forehem[ llIul then Illy left hand. ,It is a long and happy life on the whole' he saill;' but there are s(~me crosses and some deep sorrOWR. You are not yet marl'led, but you soon will bo, and you will have children-not mally-some of them yon will lose. Yon will never be rich, 1101' ever poor; and yet much, very much money will pass tllrough your llamIs. You will 1I0t lIOW stay long here; but after many years you will retuI'll, amI rule over us. Fear )lOthiug; yom destiny is undol' the planet Jupiter, and you will surely prosper.'

" He added further details when he brought my horo­scope some homs la~el', one which specially struck me, being that I shoul(1 become a Rajah and rule over a large tract of country to the South."

Thifl happened in 1828, anu shortly afterwards Taylor's employment over the province of Nuldersy in which Tuljapoor is situate abrupt.ly came to an end, He was somo time afterwards appointed sole Administrator of the Sbornpoor St.ate llm'ing the minority of the king and sub­sequently when the BeraI's were ceded along with Nllidroog to the English he was appointed Deputy Com­missioner of Bemr a1l(1 ma(le his armngements accord­ingly, but an express arriving from the Bombay Govern-

• See thc~e two C(lReS Ul\rrn tcd ill his mcmoIis callcd " Story of my Life."

11 Ilgwd, 1881.] 'L' If E '1' II E 0 8 0 r H I 8 'f .

lllC'llt a sudden cliange was llIade, tllld IIC was ordered to tnke charge of Nllldroog, Tliie; liuppelled ill I S,i:1, allll shortly afterwards wbcnlic visited 'l'uljapuor lie met the uld ae;trolllgcr agaill, lie tInts writes :_

" Olt the day of my nlTiva.l I Iiu(l just hl'eakfilstcd nlld !;at dowll wll8n an old Brnlilliin cnllle ill alld peeriJ],r dosely into my face as IIC leant llpun his stan; he sai:! , Are ,you the Taylor SaheL who CHlllU hew IlIallY years '1,(1'0 1

''''" \Vhel~ 1 alls1Vcred tllat [ was the snllle, he prOllncell a lHlIIdle of old papers :<'llli asked lIle whethcr I rC'collected ~h?I,II, As llook,ed oyer tllelll 1 saw tliat 1 had put lI1y lJlltlals to caeh of tli CII1 , but forgot at the llJoment ,,'hy [ Iiad dUlle so~ 'Have yon forgottell Saheh' saill the 'old JIIan ' that 1 Ollee cast yuill' llOroscope alld toM yon that 'you wonh~ return here to govel'll 111> after mallY ,renrs? AmI sec! It was true !-yO\! have come Hlld iuJe!'d tIlcre is liUle diJferellce ill t:11C time I 1'('C;)l';lu'l~tw~J]'ty-five )'l'ars! 1 111Hl JlOt--if yon rCl\Jeluher-the exact data that 1 wantell-yon could 1I0t gi ve tlielll to lIle,'

"It was all tnw cHongll, The predictioll !tntl eertniltly heen a strange 0110 1mel W:\S as stral,gely fulfilled cven to tltc very lctter of time,

.' Alld yon II;1\'c becn :1 H:\jah too,' eontillllcll Illy old fnelld,' allll have goverued a l'Olllltry to the Suuth for tCIl years, bllt, Ircl'onle<l-sC!c, SaIlebl' all(l be pointed excited­ly to the docull1cut..

, Not qHite a Hajah ' I flaid l:ulO'llill'" (ollly .l\!an:wer of tltc coulltr)' while the Hnjah was;: chill.' '"

,It was all the same', rutul'IJed t.lte old Hrall111in' , ),OH wcre nIl I'ow l-rfll I Hlllljust like a Hnjnll, alld yon go;'el"IIl'll the J>coJill', ~ml you lHlvc seen SOITO\\' too, Sahch; yon were l~ot IIwrned whel~ you w('re herc, nlld 1I0W YUH have lost wife nllll doar clilldroll, 1 llCnr! I wrote t.ltat-1 sa\\' it all plainly-it is Il('re, Allll yon nrc 1I0t rich titey tl'll lIle, yet lakhs of 1'11peeS have passed tln'o11"lt yom lIn IIlls, Viti 1 not tell YOll that too? ' "

, No illllced,' 1replicd, , I am not rich; iudeed, llluch Hlc re\'erse, 1Iml 1 have Itad he1wy SOlTows:

, It cmllll not be avoidl!ll ' he said; 'no ol1e could Itavc mist:Lken wImt 1 discovered just twenty-Ill'e years ngo. Yon were hoi'll for work, 1I0t for tlte indulgence of wealthy idlene:~s, nllll so YOll will cOlltinue, If YOll wallt t.hese }mperR J will give tltem to YOll ; if lIot" let them rellJ:\ill 'I'ith llle' au(1 so saying he took Ilis It'lll'e. JIe SOOIl aftcrwards went 011 a pilgrilllagc to Nassick allli t.here died. 1 did not ·want tIle papers amI he kept them. I cannot accoullt for his predictioll, 1 ollly relate wltat hnppelwll."

The secolld instance is II11lch lIIore renwrkable, "'hile in charge of the Shurnpoor SULtC, the Hallee, the motller of the illillor Hajah ns she WlIS \'ery ill, one day sellt for L'nptain Taylor, aIHI Oil 11 is mrival di~lllissell every ol1e front the roOllt except a JJrallrnil1 1'1'il'Cit wllom slle o]'(h-r­ed to bring a certain box wllich contained tllC s('cret pnjlcrs of the honse, The H1'lIIIIltin at first Ilesitated, 1111t the Hance stcrnly eOl1lllHlIllle(lllilll to do n~ he WlIS lJid .• He fetched tho box nlJ(lmilockC'd it "'itlt a key sllc gnvc hillt, 'rhc alltltor thus writes :--" The first thiJlg 1 saw was a roll tied with r!'(l silk, 'Tell him first nbollt that,' said the Rance, ,It is J]ot fit YOll f'llollld heal' it,' said the Shastree, 'it is the Hajah's horoscope which I wrote, The 1ll01ll('lIt he was uOlnlnoted the t.ime, nlHI thc cOlljullction of planets allll the result was bnd: ' Yes it is bad' erict! the Hallec, seizing Illy arm; 'it is bad, why dill I not strangle him with my own hauds mther t.ball let a wretch like that live to be the ruin of the State, Yes! he is fatcd to die in his iICCllf!!:/()/(l'lh 'year, allli 1 sltall not see it. .My husbaJld nml I sent that pnpcr to Nassik, to Bellares Hml eyerywllere tllat there nrc wise Brnhmins, but they all rctul'IIl'd the sallle auswer, He must die ill tllC twenty-fomth ,Yem aftcr birt,h, Is it lIot so 8hnst.ree ?' 'You speak truth,' sai(l the 8hastrce sobbing, , it is only the t.r11th' Taylor Snheb; I have tested all t.he ealc11lations nlld Jillll thelll exactly conforming to the t1'l1th accordillg to the planots, The R~jah is safe till then; but when that tim0 comes, how I know not, but he will surely

die. He will 11C\'Cr eOlllplete Ilis tweuty-fol1l'th year! lIever! lIevcr : '

'N.o,' eriell. tile Hnllcc, interrupting Ilill1-' lIe will lIut lIve; he IS t.he last of !tis race, He will lose t!te count.ryand all !tis lallds allll all Ow Iionor that the San"tl/(11/. IHis gailled f()r live llllndrerl years: 'N ow J IIH,ve told you all, the s~'cret I had ill Ill)' heart, do lIUt tull It to any olle till he IS tic~d, Do you put Y011r llllllti;; 11pon Illy Iieck allli Sll'(,llr tllle;'? '1. prolllise YOll 1 will Iiot' 1 sairl ' 011 thc faith of an English gelltleman' as 1 )lut Illy llalld with thc f:)IHlstree's on lIer neck, 'I will I'c,al up the box in ,rour !'reSl'lIce nllt! tltat of the f:)!tastl'ee WIth tlJC ~tate senl,' I said, 'nnd I will ad (1 my OWIl senl whell I reach 1101110' nlHl to tllis she agreed, 1 sellt for the Real, and t.he pricst Hlld 1 sealcd up the Lux. There wns no one else pI csell t,"

This lmppellc(l in lR4,7, Suhl'1eqllontly when tIle Hajah ('HlIlO of nge tIle SOllSt/WJI WliS llnndetl ovcr to llilll allll Captain Taylor lc,ft Shorapoor for another proyillce, , At, the time of ~he l\lutiIlY, t.hc Rajah of 8lwral'oor,

llstelllllg to the ndvlce of evil coullsellors, raised t.llc stall­danl of revolt, b11t, in a short tirno, the English troops rcpulse~l the rebel:" and took Shompoor, whereupoll the unfortunate H:~Jah fiell towards HYllraha(1 and \Va'! tllere takell prisoller, Captaill Taylor lind several illter­views with him who, as he lookell upon him (Taylor) as llis own f~tt.hcr, reve[tled to Ilim nil all(l showed how he hml beell misguided by his SlllToulHlillg:o<, All this was commullieated to tlw HL'sident who showell a great deal of intercst for tho ill-fated prillce. Captain Taylor was again appointed t() ad1l1inister tbo Ntate, and he proceedecl to Shor:lpoor where Ite was warmly receive(l by all classes of' people, Tlw Hesident of Hydmba(l wrote to llilll, saying that if lIe (Taylor) aske(l if the Hajall's life might be granted, especially if it were l'xplainecl with what l'1Ifiians he hatl hcen S11ITOlllldoll allll bow misled, Says Taylor :-" I sellt :111' cxpress' at ollce with an cam est appeal for lIwrcy, A few I [(JIll'S niler Illy 11,l'I'i val at Shom­poor the old Brahmill priest came to me privately, 'Do you relllem bel' S11,heb' be askclI 'what I ollce told you allll what tllU Hallce ~mi(l wltell we were with Iter at her bedside? ' 'Perfectly' 1 allswered ; 'you said the Hajah would not live to cOlllplete his twellty-fo\Jl'th year amI tlmt he would lose hiR countl'\': 'Yes 811,hob,' lIe went 011, , p11,rt of tile predidioll is ~tlreatly fulfilled, ant! the rest will surely follow-it is qllite inevitable:

'])0 you think tlte Hajah knew of the l'redietion l' I en[l'lired, 'If he dill it lIlay ltave l\lade him reckless.' , 1 do not thillk he knew it' replied tho ohl priest, ' fur t.he last time I saw the box it was in the tr0asmy with the seals unbroken as yuu left it:

(Captain \Vimlalll, the ollicer who stormed the f(Jl'tl'esg lmd securell the box allt! kept the horoscope with the 1'olls of calculations as a c11l'iosity, not lmowillg their }lUl port, Besides the young Rajab, while in prison, COll­fesse<! everything to Captain Taylor as a trusting sou would to his ratiteI', nnd yet lie lIeVl'r showell timing tho interviews allY thing which could leml one to suppose tbat he hall at allY timc bcnl'll Hnytlting about bis horoscopo amI the dread predictioll),

, \Ve canllot say' 1 continne(l ' what may yet }Iappell ; the proceedings nrc Hot oyer, and tlte Hesillent aUlI 1 are both tletermi ned to ~ml'e tbe Hajah's life if we call.' ,It is 110 usc' rctul'llcd tbe Slmstree, f'haking his Ilead mournfully. 'Vhen the Uesidellt's letter caJlle I sellt for the Nhastree and rC(ul it out to him. 'I hopo the Hajah's life is IJOW s[il(.',' I said, 'The Uovemor­General who is kind will scarcely refuse this re(ltlest.' The olll Illall shook his head sa(lIy, , Till the Inst day has passed to which the calcul:ttion extends I ha\'e 110

llOpe' he said, ,It cnllllot be wrOllg mill b11t little re­lIIaills, It grieves lIle Salw], to go over the figures ngailJ, b11t thc presellt nspcct of the pla.Jlets is very calalllitous to the H.ajalt, alld all tIl rough Jlext month the combinat.ions show cxtrcme danger. 'Ve CHllllOt help him, amI you Itave dOlio all yon could; YOll can llo 110 more-ollly wait.' ~o wo ditl1mxiously, At last the news came. The R:~ah of Shu!'a-

" 24~ 'r H.E 'r 11 EO:::; 0 1) HI:::; 'r . [Aligust, lSI-d.

poor lind Leen sentellced to death; Lut the Hesident hnd COlllllluted his sentellce to trililsportation for life which was the utmost Ilis power admitted of: This selltence had, how­ever, Leen still fnrther cOlllllluted by the Govel'llOr-Ueller­al to foll!' years' imprisonlilent in a fort.ress lIear Madras. In aclditioll, the R0ah was to be allowed to IHwe with hilll such of his wives as he pleased all(1 his own ser­yauts. If he showed evidellce of reforlll and stead iness llis principality was to be restored to Ililll. I seut off at once for the 8hastree. 'Listen' said I 'to the gm­cions ftllllillerciful determination of the Governor-General. The Rnjalt's life is safe. \Vhat beeollles of tllC pro­phecy! This letter proves it ftt!se.'

, I wish I c;ould think so, 8ftlleb' he sighed' allll tllat lily pour master wore really safe; but alas! he is ill the greatcst dallger. Nay, it seelllS closer tlmn ever now. Bllt we shall see, 8aheb.'

"A few llayS after, the Hesidellt's order finally callle that the ladies were to be sent off 011 a certaill day. J·:verythillg was, therefore, prepru'Cll allll it being a (by seL apart f(JI' the arrangemellt of yearly allowaJl{;es to Hralllllins, I'everal were seatoll at the table with llle whell :mddeuly I heal'll the clash of tile express rUllBer's bell~, Hlld a packet was soon ill Illy hands. It contaillell a fow lines frolll thc Hesidellt.

, The It:0:th of Shompoor shot -hi rnsclf this 1l1Ol'llillg de.lll as he arrivcd at his first encampmeut. I ,viII wl'ite particulars when I kllOw theill.' My COlllltelln,llCe llatUl'­nlly changL'd, HlIlI the ohl 8hastree who was beside III 0,

caught hold of Illy arm amI peering into Illy face, cried 1Ilill0st with a shriek.

, He is dcad: he is dead 1 1 Imow it by yom face-it tells il1l', 8aheb, he is dead!' 'Yes' I said SOITOWflllly , lie is dead.' 'Oh!' said the old priest as soon as lie coul(! speak ' he cOllld Ilot escape his fate alill the prophecy is fulfilled.'

"It wn8, indeed, a strange accolllplishment of the predic­tioll. In a few days more the Hnj:dl would have COlll­pleted his twellty-fourth yeal'; aud now lte hall dicd by his OWlI hand. "Whell the Hnjah ha.l been told of tile Govelllor-Gelleml's

COllllllutatioll of his sentence, he was deeply grateful fur the mercy ShOWll hilll alld was pnrticu!nl'ly please(! to Le allowed the society of llis Hallees.

"He lind travelle(l in a ImlaJHluill with the officer COlll­JlHUldillg his escort near Ililll, awl ,yhell thcy atTired at the first stnge the officer took off his bel t in which was a lomled revulver, huug' it over a chair allll wont olltsi(le the tent. While washillg' his filce a 1lI0l11ellt afterwards he heard a slwt all(l l'tllllIill<T Lack fOllllll tlte Hnjah lyillg Oil the groulHl (plite dea~1 ; the ball hall elltered the stomach aud passed through the spine.

"Was the aet illtelltiolHtI? I think 1I0t. He llad n,

trick always of taking up allli exatllilling everything Ij'illg Ilcar !tilll. 1 do lIOt think he COld (I evcr lmvc seen u revolver alld stich n we:tpoll would be too temptiug to escapo notice, lie ,,"onitl be sure to snap it or llleddle with the lock aIHI the pistollllay b:we explo(lml without bis kuowiug it at all. I who kllew him well do lIot beliere it was suicide. \Vhether accidental or intentional, the l'esnlt wail the sallle. The H:tjah was dead nml his k illg­dUIll was lust (it was given to the Niz:tlll by the EugEsll) ere he cOlllpletcll his twcnty-fourth year; atHl the grilll old prophec'y deduced fhlln the horoscope was literally fulfilled." This happened in 18-iH.

These two allthentic illstftllces, nJated hy one of thc most shrewlI, pmetical-millded amI cool-hende<! ElIglisllllWIl that held office in Inllin ill the present cC'ntl\l',Y, arc s\lffi­cient to arrest the atteutiun of those scepticl' who rtlll

down astrology without allY carefni ellquiry. The clap­trap test, l'rupo~ed by Khall Snheb Damshaw, was no tei'it at all, alld whell thc astrologer told hinl frankly that lleithl'l' lte llor others of his class wouhl sublllit to sHeh wagers, he was right. For who would ever thillk of proposing such illegal and unscientific ways of test in tmth? '

JIANlYEflS AlI'D CUSTOMS OF THE AUYAJYS.

BY BAUU l'RASANNO COOMAR DEY.

III tlw comse of his address at the Intel'llatiollal COIl­gfess of Orientalist:l, Professor l'\fax MUller said that a people tllnt could feel 110 pride in the past, ill its history Hwl literatl1l'0, lust the maillstay of Iwtiollnl chnrnc· tel'. \\Tltell Germany was ill the v(~ry depth of political (h'gnlllation, it tllrllcd to its -anciellt literature, nml drew ltupe for the future from tlto stndy of tlte past. It is a good sign of the times tltat sometliiug of the same kind is now passing in India. Nevel' before the formation of the Theosophical ~llciety had the attention of the people of this country becn so mnch turned to their ancient arts nlHl flciotlces. That body is trying its bost to bring back htli:t to tlwt ~tate of perfection to wllich it hat! ollce rcaclte(l. No reasonable person will deny to the Arynlls the praise of rery extensive lenl'llillg. The variety of s\ll~jccts 11 pOll w Iticlt they wrot.e, prove that almost every science was cultivatell alltung tltell1. The lllanller also ill which tltey trentell these slll~jects proves t.lmt the loarlled Aryans yielded Lite pallll of learning to scarcdy Hny other of the ancients. The more their pltilosopltical works Hllrl law buoks are stlldied, the 1ll000e will the cnq \I i reI' be COli vi l\(:ed of the llepth of wisllolll possessed by the alltllOrs. Bnt it is f' great pity that tlte origin of a lmtion tlmt rose to such a pre-elllinellce is still illvolvell in lle('p obscltl'ity. We llloet with nothillg in the Himllt f-lhnstras tlmt can throw light on tlte plriod in which tlley liycd awl 011 their origillall'lace of abude. It cannot he fOlllld in any of the bouks t hat the word Arya 01rtT expresseR tlle Aryan race. The wonl Arynvarta

~ ~ used by AIIl:tr 8inha III tIle epithet (31I<:JT'l:rr

qrnr ~(~pfEq fcn:m?;~r0Qr:) signifies habitations of the ~ '" Aryalls allll not the Aryan race. The gelleml llleaning of the wunl Arya is great (?:;pg). The derivatioll uf the

won! (~rir) is (~r~IG:P1Cf:) wbiell meaus tlH.se who have come frolll a distance. This derivation ]>I'oves to I:'onle extent the assertion of sOllle of the Ellropcnll philosophers that tlI(! Ar,)'ftns were the aborigines of han. ~ir 'Villiam Jones dlus gives tbe origill of this sillgular people. "Thlls ltas it Leen proved, by clear eyidellce Hill! plnill reasonillg, that a powerful llIonarchy was established in Iran long before thc Assyrian, or Pislldadi O'OVel'lllllent: tllat it was in truth a Hindu ll1ollaJ'chy,tllOugh if allY choose to call it Cusi:lIl, Casdean, 01' Scytlliall, we shall llOt euter into n, debate 011 mere wlllle~; thnt it subsisted llJany celltlllies, nlHl tlmt its Ilistor'y has been engrafte(l on that of tlJe Hindu,;, who fOllllded tIte lIlonarchies of Uyodhya, aUl! II.Hlm-Prusta; that the lalJCfllao'c of the first Persian empire was tho mother of tl~ 8anskrit, Hllll conseqnently of the Zend and IJersi, as well as of Ureek, L:Ltin nllll Oothic; that the lan~lta(fe of the Assn'ians was the pnrcut of Clmldaic

" '" J ,,- I I ntHI Pnhhvi, anll that the primary Iartnnall allguage a so ltad been cmrellt ill the sallie ellipire; although, as the 'J'artarll hall no books or eyen letten~. we call not with c~rtainty trace their ullpolished allli variable idioms. 'Ve discover, therefore, in l'ersia, at the earliest dawn of history, tlte three distinct races of men, WllOlll we llescribed Oil forlller occasions, as possessors of India, AraLia, awl Tartary; mlll whether they were collectell in Iran from distallt n~giolls or clivergell from it as from It common centre we :;hall easily determine by the following cOllsi· derntiolls. Let tiS observe, ill the first place, the celltral positioll of hall, \\'Iiich is buuwiecl by Arnbia, b'y Tartary, alill Ly India; whilst ArnLia lie,; contiguous to hall onl'y, bnt is remote from Tartary, alld divided evell froIn tiw skirts uf India by a considerable gulf ; lIO country, tltercf'ore, Lut Pemia seems likely to have sellt forth its colollits to all the kingdollls of Asia. The Bmhmilill could Hever lmve llligtated from India to Irall, Lecallse they are expressly forLidllell by their o!(lest existillg laws to leave the region ivhich they inhabit. Arabs have nQt

I

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even tl tnulitiun of an emigmtion illt.o Persia before }\10 Im1l1111Ctl, 1101' hml the,)', indeed, allY intlllCell1ellt to quit tllCi r bC:l.l1tiflll 111\(1 extensive dOlllaills; amI as to the THrtar~, we h1l\'e no trace in history of tllCir (Iepartllre from their plains awl forest.s till the inva~ioll ot'the Medes, whu, acconlillg to etymologists, were the SOliS of Madai ; ami cvell they werc cOII(lnct.cd 11)' princcs of all ASRJTiall family. Thc three raccs, thcrcfill'c, whom we have already melltiollC(1 (allli 1I10re tha.ll three we have Ilot yet found) 111 igrated from Iran as from thci l' COlllllJOn country; all( I thus the f)axoll Chronicle, J preSIl1l1e from good allthorit.y, hril\O's the first inhabitallts of Britain frolll Arlllellia; while a 1at~ very leamo(1 writcr coneitlllcR, after all his laboriolls researches, tlmt tho GothR or Scytllialls callie frolll Persia; allLl anothcr contends with great forco, that both tho lri~h allil 01(1 BritollR proceeded severally from the bonlers of the CaRpian ; a coillci(lcllcO of conclusions from (I iffercII t media by persons wholly unconllccte(l, which cotl~cl scarcelv havo Imppene(1 if they were lIot grotllldml on sohll prillcil;les. We llIay, thercfore, hold thiR proposition firmly ostfLblisltecl, that Iran, or Persia, in itR largost sense, was tlte t1'lle centre of populations, of know lodge, of laIl"'ulwes, and of arts; wbiclt, ills!'oml of tmvcllillg wc~w~~'(1 ollly, as it has becn fillleifully supposcd, or eastward as min'ht with olll1al reason have been asserte(l, , '" were expallded in all directions to all tho regiulls of the w01'1<1 in which the Hilllin race 1111(1 seulell llI)(ler variotls dcnolllillatiolls : bnt wbether Asia has not pro­duce(1 other raccs of lllen distinct frolll the Hindus, the Ambs, 01' tl)() Tartars, or wheth~r any apparellt diversity may Bllt llaYC sprullg frum au illtennixtllr? of those three ill diffcrent proportions, IllUSt be the subJcct of a futtll'e Cll(luiry." But the fn,ct of thoir migmting from Ira~l, C~II­Hot be found in Hindu Slmstms, although the dCl'lvaholl

(~f~:rG:rT]Cf:) bears out this assertion illllirectly. III tho Hindu Hhnstms it has beeB \aH (Iown that the ItllCestors of the present Hiudus forlllerly. live(1 ~n. a country called Kool'Oo. But t!w geo.gmplll?al pOSI :-lO\l of this place is \lot known.. It 1S men.tlOlled ll~ the Bana Parva (If the great cillc poem of thc HllIdlls-the Mn.lmbharata, tb;tt Kiug PaUllu told Ilis wife .Koont~e, tlmt the WOlllen of North Kooroo-onr fur 1Il C1' abotle-stdL liVClI ill a Rtate of complete undity. From thii> it appears that the place was beyond tho lil!lits( of' Hilltl~lstall. It seellls probahle tint some place 1lJ CeutraL Asm was so designatetl. It. lIIay. be In~ll. In tho l\Jalmhlmmtlt a tract of sall(ly (Iesert IR tlenOllllllaterl Irccn. It st,ands to reaS011 there.i()re, that from this sall(ly desert Ireen or Iran the A:·.Y1UlS first came to India. The writer of Hf\i Taral~­()'illi-l'n.mlit Kallllftll,--says that after tho deluge Kaslllllll' bccamc at first known to the habitable world. This fact lealls SOlllO to suppose that either Kashmir or it,s northcru parts were the o~'igilJ~l. abode. of tl.LC I-~indns, nIHI that they sallie(1 fortl.l III tiItl()~'eut (hrectlUlIs f~'OI~ those placefl. But how fitr thell' conclnslons are correct 1t IS lJot easy to say. l'awlit Kalllm!l :"as !" believer in the ~ool'[~llic deitwe, ami as such, 1t 1S valll to oxpect rcal Instoncal factsOin hil'! tlescription of' the origin of Kashmir. The Al'yalls were {'oml of a<rricnltnrc. It was for this reason that they bade fitl'eweil ~o the. aritl. wa')~es o.f Uell tt:al ~sia alltlmigrated to the fertile plalllR of Ill\lm With thClr wives uml children, ami Hocks and cattle.

Lahore, 20th April, 1881.

(Tu be cuntil!ued.)

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WE HEWU~T '1'0 ANNoUNCl~ 'l'lm ll1~A'l'H 010' l'AN])IT

Hhmtldha Ram of Phillorc on Frhlay, the 24th J~HJe last. This great PnlHlit was th~ foumler of the Han. Dnyall Mamlim at Lahore and Plllllo~e. ~ groat ~hall1l~l~n anti kadcr of Hillllu religion, he .tiISSollllllatell IllS OpUllo,UR so boldly amI eloquelltly that n~1ther ~rahlllo l~or Ar~m, Smna. jists evcr vcntnred to cross hUll. HIS death 1S aUUTeeOVel'· able loss to tho Hindu community. He was the author of AtmaUhikitsu, Hamala Kamdhenu, Dharma SambotllmJ

PaIsa Sa(lhilli, Ashcharya Sallgmlm, Dharma Rahhehe, Sat­(llml'lila Katlm, amI mall,)' other volumes of' <Trcat llJerit. It is intellllf~d by the l'lllJdit's fl'iendR all(1 ~(lIl1ire)'s to ),!li~e It sl~bscrip;!lI'tl for. his widow, . Palldit Gopi Nath, h(iItor Mlilra } tl(~l:3a of Lahore, leadlllg the movement.

.----~ .... ----'1'0 TIIB JIIJIA 0AYAN JJ]W1 JIlEIlS.

BY SUllltAllJI J. PADSHAH, l~, '1'. S.

1.

Oods of this nothcr 8plICre l~ Sineo ye alone all mort.al thiugs outlivo, Ami chango not through all changos, hut achiove An endless unity of elldlcss joy,

0'01' all thing'S that destroy Peace, I'(JVe amI Hal'lllollY, .From liS who mortal be.­Knowlo(lge aw.l Hope and Thou()'ht By us are (Iearly bought: 0,

Ami that which is yoUI' life but forms our bioI' !

2

A ud yet ye were like us. The birth of Time Brought forth no pro(ligy, anti kuew yo uot.

But yo olltstripp'd Loth time and thOllO'ht As light outstrips tho shallow of the Ban. 0'

But light and shalle are one: "TllO knows this secret aud will over dio ? Discord (liscolll'ses sweetest ImrlUony :_

An(1 yo have heal'll the cl;illle Hing high above all jarring soulIlI,

. Ami so the secret found 1

3

How have ye reach'll the Slllllillit of' YOllr ()'oal, 'Which wo, too, see, hnt see with fontl re"l~tl

'" Alas! our hearts arc set all thil1gs which claim an empire o'er our soul­All uudivided kingdom; and we slave8, Thongh life ctel'llal, like a stclllltast stUI'

Shines on liS, lIot afitr, Lie down within our gravcs,

And d list 011 dust we heap, until we reai' A. lllOlllllllelit to suicitlal fear!

4

\Vitlt Til1lc lllan passes 011 : Rais'll Oil the structure of his funeral pyro,

Aloft ill agony ho waVos his halld­Alas 1 he only brandishes tho brand,

That lights nlld burns him in his own desire, I~ike clouds which ki ndle lightning, that willl'end

Theil' bosom into twainl Alas! alas! he faiu

Would struggle from his uight into the tlawu­He ouly writhes 011 to the fatal end!

Not thus, yo Brothers! oh not so V olcauie passiolls lay ye low,

Writhing ami strugglillg till your force is spent! But calm aUtI resolute, from day to day,

Ye take your onward WHY, AUtillot a grave awaits your cerement!

Unsulliml as tho Himalayan snow, Plll'e as the snow of yom own mountains, flow

your thoughts like mighty Indus ill Ollr braiu, And thence uuto tho uuiversal maiu !

G

Ye mio'My Brothers, who your vigils koep, °Frolll clime to clime and age to age, And watch OUl' weary pilgrimage,

As heavy and footsore we climb the steep,

TI111t lea!ls tiS to the havell of your humo:­Olt Brothers: IUlid a Jtelping Imlld, olt ! COlllU

, Alid gnide tlfl, lest our courage fail, ALd we 1)c llIlric(1 from tho Ileiglit, "Whero, dizzy, lialting ill atfright,

Om footsteps totter allli our spirits fail:

7 Oil! yo Itave listelled, and Illy spirit gTows

A lIlirror of the 11lIi vcrc;o I I see '1'110 Illiglity billows of EI,orllit,y

] Im1'y me Ollw:ln] ill tllcil' wil(l career! Ami yet I 1000w no fear:

For I alii 0110 with N atmo, ami I feel In IIllisOIl with bors lily p\llse~ boat,

Al1l1 llIllsic soft l1pon Illy 8cnses steal, An(l fragrant odoms sweet-

Uh Drothers, ye IJ~we cur\l 1110 of Illy throes!

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PAIl-lernAI'll FJ.Ji181lE8 FROJ[ 1'1/E FOUR qU.JlO'ERS.

'i'm: l\:\EPII iH 1111 "Oflicial JUlI1'II1l1 o[ the Alltit:ut IIIHl l'rilllitil'e Hite of r,la,oolll'Y, lJl.lbli~he,l t1l1LJer Ihe :tIlt,hority of the ~o\'erei~1l Sallctuary fi,l' great Britllill alld Irelal1d, ill LOlldoll, 11I1l1 edited II}' 0111''' 111". Brothel' Kel1l1eth 1:. II. :'Ila· ekcllzie, IXu L.L.D., 32.0 COI1Fiderillg thCHIIlOLIllt of intercstillg ill{0l'111atioll eOlltllinc(1 ill it for Ihe pl1blic gt'llernlly, nll(l its l'cal illirill~ie Yaille fiJI' l\lasoll", we bclie\'e it the cheapest jourllal ill tho world, the Hl1b5CI~iptioll.l)l'illg, po:,t-fl'cc, bl1t ol1e rl1pee pCI' all 1111 111 I No illa"~I~ 1~I.ll1lI11:,. ",hethel' be acccpts 01' n'jt!ct,; tbe Al1l.icllt nud 1 1'11111 tI\"e 1,110 of Masolll'Y, lI111kes "'Ill' 011, (ll' i;, fricl1dly to, lite Grand Ol'ient of Fl'l1l1ce, ought 10 1'(,11111 i 11 wit hOll t 1.11 i~ pli bl icatioll, HIllI for good IIIIlII y rCll;';OIl':, Tbe iir:,t ot' it ie, titat !\rot.!iel' 1\\aekcllzic i,; t.ho 1I1IIbol' of t.he "Hol/llf iJl'ilish. j1]asonic C:lJclopm/ia," a work witielt fOl' the HUIl)!lIlt of c"otcrie illf'Ol'll1at.illll 1I0t tc be fOlllll! ebowbcre, ('oiliailled ill tbat buge yo\tll11c-is prieelc;,;;. lloth are wal'll1ly 1'0('01l1l11ell(loll to 0111' Fellows of tbt3 Thco::'opbiclil Societ.y, lI11d to 1)('1'00118 illtl'rested ill tlw,t l'"rliculat' line of' thought. Commullicatiolls for tbe Editor :,holiid I,l' Illldrcs~cd "Clyde llome, \Vl'llillgtoll-l'o[ld, IIoulI::low, LOllllolI."

The followil1g i;; a copy [1'0111 tlJ() nboye jOlll'11al of 1111 illt.cl'c::,t· ill" letter plll)li~hcd \1l1(lcl' the head of ''l\Ia::011ie i\'o[e,; alld Q~crie:,." 1'cl'clIII 11CC, i'()llle AI'.IJ(lll jllasoJl in I"dia wilt be nlJle to throw ligbt upon t.hcl1l :-

"Will 1111)' Sl'lltch brothcl' hell' 1118? SOJIIC Jcnrs IIgo thcre eamo illto 111)' pOf:~e~sioll tracillgs of t.lie engravillgs in" A11tielJt Pillar StOIl(,'; of ScolllIIlll," by ])1'. :\Ioore.

The Newtoll Stolle cOlltllilJS t.\\'o inscriptiolls ; the first in the lIel,rc\\' language, uut ill l'ali tllld Aryllll chnracter,;, i~ thus trlllJolatcll :-

"111 the 1001ib lI'ith thc dcad is Aittie, the light of 1110 dtll k· ncss of a l'cncrlell pcople, wlto ~hall 1'0 cOl1sce1'l1tcll 1111re l'rie;;t to God. Likc the YCp,e\ of prnyel' 1l1}' glory cOl'clTll

we. " Tlte <:!lIIl'nctel' (rall"la(ed ,; Go(I" is 1.110 f'neret\ lndinl1 SYl11ll0\

rese\l1blil1" t.1I'0 Z'ti ('I'o;:"ell ; it is tho Oldy sYl11bol 011 the ~tOIJ(,. The 8cc~~\l1 ill8Cri[llion is ill Oglllllll c111L1':lclel'.', nl1d is

l'endcl'cll :-" WhcII Baal ruled ,J utland, a\1d tltc COliS!. before the0, lulli

"'11;; SllIiltcl1." Thcr() is 110 inscription 011 the :'ceollli stunc, uut the fullow-

ilJ" Fymliols :-';1<'0 circles, Ilot far 1'1'0111 (,lIeh olhcl', jOilH'l1 toget1lcl' hy

foUl' clIl'\'o(1 lillI'S. Eadl circle COl1tains a poil1t, II 11 II from 0110 of tllem a sCllli·eircular piece is relllol'cll ; I)cloll' is a large scrpcl1t, ",ith a poillt within 1\ circle OIl ils middlc, eoiled 011 "n Z sh!lpell s.l'lllbul.

011 tlie Logie StOlle, (0I\,al',]2 tlie top, i~ II cir,;lc, n1'ollllll "'hiclt is t.ho OIr]lIlll1 il1Eeriplion "Tlds is lhe elll.j'[\nce stOI1C," jlcrhaps intliclltill~ tlie clltJ~al:ec to a eirclll:lr .01' c.tlier Telllplo; lo\\'er dowII :Irc 111'0 RCts of elrde~, very slIlldal' 10 that lIbol'e llescribcll ; the loll'cl' FCt. intcrseclc(1 by 1\ Z shaped a\,I'OW, IUIlI t.lie uppel' 01\C partially co\'crcd IJY whnt appears to Lo nil ol'l1nlll~llted cnllopy, which ill its tUl'Il is intel'sected Ly 1\

V shaped [lI'I'OIl'. The s!.one:; are of IIl1kl\own lud,iqlli ty. '1'11(3 reference to thc Ve,""el of Prayel' I1IllI the symbols point td 1\ BlIlldhi:,t; ori:.;ill. [[:IS IIny fUI't.liel' lenrlling becII bl:ollght to bcal' 011 thc~e St01l05, Ilnd are Dr. l\Ioorc's tmllsllitiollS gOIlUl'I1l1y ncceptcll as nu !.hol'itnti \'e ?

1\IASO~IC lIElUIIT, 32°"

Current H!es of the JYatiollrtl Refin'mcl' contain (he vcrbatim ]'('POl't of' a lliost intcrestillg alltl, perhnps, uni(IlIe dellatl', betwecll the Hel'. A, lIatchl1nl, Curate of'St, Sal'iour'f, Slwdwdl, Hlld 1\11';:. Aliide BCS:lllt, tlie bral'c nil,] i1CCOlllpli~bed co-adjlltl'ix of' 1\11'. Clllu'!c's Urlltllnngh ill lJi~ w(lrk of religious tllld p~liticll[ rcfol'lll.

Tllc diSCtleSion occllpiell t.wo lIight;;, the pl'opositiolls Leill":­"That, the,Jeslls of Illc Gospels isn historical chnractel'."-:dllnl1. e(l by :\!t" IIatcha1'lI, del1ied uy ilIrs. Bl's:llIt; nnd "Tllnt the illf.lut'nco of CllI'i::tillility Oil the world hilS bcell ill.ill]'iol1~,"­nlll1:lllcII Ily ,\lis. Bc;,nnt, 1111(1 donied hy till' elergYIlHlll. Both sldlJccts wcre <:lJosell by 1\11'. lIatdll1l'll, who, accordil1g to Ids 011'11 statelllellt, ]lrcfclltell hilu;'elt with the SI1I1ct,ioil of tho llcads of the Church in LOlldon.

WhldovC'1' 11'0 IllaY (liillk of' tlic po"ilioll assailcd, al1d tJJI1t l11uilltllincd, hy 1\11':'. lic:'allt, tliere call be YCl'y little doubt tlmt il1 logienl aClIIllell, nuility, Hll(1 eloqllcllce, ~he was !'l'c-elllil1cllt'y the. elcl'gYllllll1'S sll[leriOl·. The loud al1(1 jll'otI'Hctcd npplallso wlncll "'HS Ilccol'llod 1111 hCI' alhll'('sscs il1dientCl1 the ('jfect pro. dllcc<l UI'011 the large ulllliel1co [Isselllblcd.-lIal'liiJlgel' of Ligltt.

The 1:1~t lllail from EUl'o[lo inforllls \IS of the (;al1olli2atiull of [\ lie\\' Saillt Iyilo, if he takl'M his lllllllualle lllll>its to heavell will bo

. I ' ~IO S<t:'OllI'Y COlllpltl1lDil to I. Ie goo(lsOllls Hilder St. Petcl:s gllarcl· l~l1lsh.'l). .THHt one llllildred yean:! ngo, a Fn'llch1111111, l"'lllcd DCllOlt Ll~\Jl'e, Id~ La Trn[ll'~ for. Hall"" Iliakilig lti~ way 011 foot, and cOl'tll1111y havilig lin 1'1'118 III 111" ~itoe8 for tllc gooll reasoll tli:lt he ma(le titp weal',}' Wity all barefooted. III tite capital of C1Il'i,,­ti<l1lity he a<l"l'tcd the lIlodest calling of n me11dic<lllt. Dut, thOll, he was 110 1110<111 ,11111 sellisit beggl\l'lll:tn, j)olloit, Labre took hi~ daily I'ost at t,h~ gilles of the great citl\rehe~. The abll~ O\' gifts he got, whether 111 c:l~h O\' e10tiJes (II' brcad, lie "·H\"e at L OIICO to Lhe poor; thollgh ]Jot to those 1'001'e1' t1lllll liiulseil, fol' ]J~lIe could be 80. HoI\' thell dill he Ii I'e ? lliH food \\'itS tlio gal'bnge of the ]:0111:111 d\lst llcnl's. IIis e/othillg "";>s the III1/,ateite(1 Khreds of the lIIisemblo milllellt he had IJl'ougilt [1'0111 Fl'al1l:e. As to his illtilllate c,mlp:tllioIlSllil' it was awful; it was COli Ii II I'd to the c\'f\wl· illg YCI'Illill all his l'erslIl). some vI' these are still I'rt'scl'\'et! (IlOt ill life let \IS hope) at HOIllO, allll are eal'l'ieti to sick bellI; ill o 1II0l'gu 11·

eicfl, ,,'hell l'ocovery Illay be c::;tecll1l'll a lllirncle. The O'ood Saillt AnlhollY clljoyell the COllljllllliollShil' of a pig, l'eliss~1I relie\'cd hi,; solitlll1u with a sl,i<lel·. Why H1lotdtlllot, the piolls IIlclIllicallt, IIUW Snint BCllOit Lalire ill hom'ulI, COlU[Ol't hilllRelf wit,it the soeiety (If lI10re lIiinllte fullo\\"-ereatul'cs ill the rllins (If CulissClllll, where he slept Ol'cry Hight '/ 011(' (hy he was fOIlI\(1 (btll at the gate of the chmch of Olll' Lady of the :'ILOllllt, hnlf de\'olll'cII by the cOIn· PlllliollS he ('llcollmged ahollt lli~ \,l'I'SOn, lie is erediled with hal'. il1g perforll1eti mimclep ill his life-time, nlHI a solelllll COl wi ave of the church adjllllgell him dil'ine hOl1ours, Last 1II0l1th the r11liuhtellcIl Lell XIII. COllfil'lilCd the (;allol1izatio11. Without grllllgil1g ::;aiubdlip to allY good man who may llll\"(' mlvle Illlcrifiucs fur itUlllll1lity, Olll'. lllay :-;till feel a little s\II'l'ri';cll tklt a Po pc frolll ,,,hom II111ch ""IS cXI'~dcll shoulll ha\'e ml\(le O\lt his first free pass for l'"n\(li~e ill fal'oll\' of a persollage l'el'l'eseutil1," It kind of virtue which the JYinet,'cnth Centul'/j ccrtainly c:tlJllOt tie expected to regard as oest wurth elicolll'ilgemeut.·-- Tlte Pioneer.

TAUL\U E'S " LATEST. "-Tho HCI'. J" r. ~"'allllnge is 1111 AlI1cl'i. cnn divine of' falill', or I'Crlllql~, rat.her notoriety, who is e1deily knoll'lI in El1gluIHI by t.he rlllhlcs~I1CSS with which, ill II le<"llll'­ill),; tOl1l'lie IlIlule thro\lgh t.he province!:', he bled Iiis sanguillo eo-rcligiollists who had bccil deludell il1to offerillg him lnrge l'cef. Tldillnge reecllt.iy 1l1111011IlCCII that if, whell re[lchill" lIeHI'cll, lie foullII tllllt, fewcr thlll1 100,000 souls hall Lcpl1 SIII'CJ

11)' his ini"trllllll'ntalit.y he would IIsk I'cl'1lli""ioll to I'Cturll to enrlh an.\ 1II11ke "1' the L'lilancc. III thc I11cnl1t.i11le, at the eiose of his' SCl'l'ices he rcquests tho audiel1ce \lot to cllrry oft' t.ho II),nlll.Looks.-GlasgolV TVce1d!J Mail.

The Ill'fnrious illflllC'llce of the year 18S1 is still nSEol'tilig !lscll: The aS51lssinution of the Presidcnt of thc Ullited States, Gellcral Garfield, follows t.he 1I1ll1'(lcr of the Emporor of Ru~sill. 'rhe death of HuiJil1stein Ihe great, pinllist, but preceded thnt of HCllry Yil'l1xtCll1PS, t.he Bclgiall, Ihe grcatest violol1celist lIIHI compose of 0111' eenlury. Alld 11011' cOl1les t.hat. of Litlru, 0110 oj'the lIlost Lrilliaut seicutilic ligllts of FJ'Ullee, & It is to him tunt we wiilnow devote!\ few lines. But who uext ?

Al1gl1st, 188i.] ,THE THEO~OPHIST~

l\Inximilicll Panl Emil,} Lit,tre, tllO Acatlemician, alltl Senator the great Frcnell Lexicographcr, born int,11ll fir.,t yeal' dom' een· tl1ry • .i~s(. died inhi~ 81"t ycal'. The emincllt phil~logi;:t (he knew :-inllskrit., lIebrew, Grt)pk nlld Latin to pet'i'eet.iolt) was a pro· fl'sscd athei,t all his life, ant! a "'111'111 friend of' Allguste Conllc', as well as II promincnt. I'l'oln.>tpr of Itis doctritlc, (If whieh he givcs nil cx('(dlen(. ,},nop,is in his great, work, Dc lal'Jlilaso)l/tie Positiv(" ant! l1)1on which he expollllc1ec1, while d(,fend:ng thelll in a ~cric;; ofp:unpltiel~. For ycnr.", owing to Ihe itdrignes of the Archhishop Dn)lllltiollP, the" thory Bishop of O..J()nlli'," atll1 l1ot.with"t:lIl1lillg Ihe C'lllilletit, Reieltlil1c neltit}\'ulilent.s of the itifitlel m\'Hnt. Ihc door., of tho ACILIlelllY of tleit'llet)s were ~Iltlt. to hilli. '1'IIP forly " IlIllllort.n]s" f\'nrillg 1.0 ndillil, "nch a I'/llik fllhl'iRt lest Ihe Itri"lot,ralie Flluhol\l'g, &; 81. CCl'llIn:ll, all,1 llle Fi;"l i\lnrkf't. ill I.hl' fn"t, of' Iheir rp'"')lcctil'o l'('presclIl.atil'cs of tho fnir "e:(-th(',-o la<lio.- Cr(J1l1 the two opposit.e ('11<1., of the ~lH'inl ladder, hnvill~ 11011' 1'f'III:liIlCll the chief if 1I0t the otdy pillnrs of' th(\ HOlllall Catholie cler~y ill Hc'ptddienil Frallcu­~!JOlllll stollO theill. III 187 I, !t~'wc\'('\', 1\1. Dnpilidotip 1I0t· withstalldillg, tllO " lllllllortrtis " fel·lill~ thClll:'cll'C's f'ufl'lIO'cd with 1,IllShcs for I.hc'ir cowardie2, UlIlllliIllOtl.,ly olecictl 1\1. (Ie Litlre to tilC Aendclllie:d elrair. ,Yo Illfly add Cll I)(lssonf, that they were rC\\':I\'(I(',1 for it. II)' !t ft'arill] seallil:ti c~re:tle,l hy the Archhishop, who ('.tll';;['(] alit] :tllathcl1Iatizcdltis eolle:tgui~s Ihcro Illltll.hcli atltl-withdrew, bl'enkill~ for nvcr wilh t.ilc Ac~a,!cllly. To t.he last lllOIll('tlt of his consciollS life, tile lat.e l'osititivs n'lIIl1illCllll'lle to hi.~ prill(:iplc~ of lIeglltiotl. Allt1110w-he diet! ...... as the clericnl papcrs t: illiliphalltly asscrt,"":"'a Chri.,tiall !

Aeeorditlg to the I/Il:ttlilllOtiS Icstimouy of the l'nris pre,s flS 80011 liS the (ll:togl'lInl'ilill at.hci"t h:lll fnllc'll ill fll'tirllfo mortis, alld t.he ng(lItY h:ld begllll, tllo ev[,r vigil:lIlt. .Tt'slIil. Fatirers, who Jlad sccmcd 1.0 their (':UI:'O llis wifc 111111 datlgldl-'r, pro(:laimc,! the IlCW, that I.ho nt.hci"t had .ins! bcforc Ihnt rnpcllt.ed ; alltl, without losing t.ime adllJillisi.crct1 to hilll Ihe riles of hapl.i."\ll Hill] thl) vial.ic:ttill. A(~eordillg to t.lle GrlllZois I.ilo frictll!" 1111<1 sup­portcrs of tiln dend philosoph!,I' wero clll'agcd beyoud dt'scription nt, sllch proceedillg", a!!tl tho bmial (:or(,IlIOIlY cultllillnted ill a puhlie otl:llltl:d. '1'110 clericals 11:\11 lllldcavoUI't:t1 to IIlake tile I;nloll"lIge of tlio ftlllcl':1i itS solem II nil,] as theatrical ns it WIlS po.-sible fcJl' thcm. Sillce c:lrly mOl'llittg 1\ Jlrie,(-. was seell prostratcd hcfol'o t.he eotnll which wns Slll'l'I)J\Illll,d Ily a whole: nIlily of the clcrgy who t.ried t.o CI'OWl\ off frolll tile ehtll'ch cI'cry ilJfidel til!'y (:oul,). Thcy Inlt] 110 t.r()uhle t.o Stl()coet1. as Ilolle of Littl'l:'~ nssl)('iIltes ill atheisllI, 11'0111<1 elltl'r it. thlrillg t.he SCI'I'iCl(l, :1I1t] J\L nellnll, the free·thillkinu; nllthor of t.ho I-i(e of Jeslls, Barthelemy St. lIilairG nlltl a ho.,t of others s!andillg olll"i,]e. III I.he c('metery, whell J\I. Virouhof, the illiilllnte· frielld nil'] literary part.ller of t.he d,'f'lIllt~t, tle;;ircll to say n sp('cI:h Oil It is tomh, the clericn]s int.erl'lIpted him with cries-" Llcspcct to t.he hpl'cavol! fillnily." 111 anSlYer, the l'ositil'i,;(,s who Iltllll1Jeretl nlillut two Ihirds of tllo l'1')w<1,-3,OOO 1l1('11 sirong-shont.ct] " Vil"e la lillrc Iwn.-cc!" Vil"e la liiJerte!" (Long lil'e Free Thon.!.!;ht ! 111(1'I':lh, for Lihert.y !), !tnll r('.~n\'lllef;.' of thc protest, ]I.!. Vironhof prollouncc,1 ltis ~pccch ('xcusillg Ihe dc·{'tillet. hefore t.hc l'o~itil'ist,s on tlte gl'onllds as gh'CII abo\'('. Tho [{('JI II b­liqlle Francoisc VO('ii'I'\'fIte,s ngaillst. the c.!ergy alill lells ils rrndcrs t.hat, it is they "of t.ho IOllg eoats" who shoute,] "Down with t.he HC'jlnlllienm!" rO(lciving ill. rcply: "Do\\'n wilh t.lle .fcsnit.,! The r,hlll'elt hfls commit.t.ct] a r:l\·i,hmellt, IIJlOIl it dyilll2: 111:<11 .... II, is gllilt.y of kidnajlpill~!" &e. The pr(;scnce of tho l'rcilidcnr, of thc ncpublic of Frnllce Ren',;tl bnt, to throw oil npon the fil'c. As It 111:\1.1.01' of eOllr,e, thc rkrgy who hnl'e herorc now trict! their hant! at claiming' as their prize Thomas Paino II1l11 PI'CII Volt.airc, will 1I0W sing vid.ory morc I hllll el·('I·. 'I'h n.s the III cmory of HII honest nil.! a grc:{t mall, who rC'lIlai IICt! trlle to his eOIl v iet,iolls fol' Ol'el' t.hl'ee seol'e 01111 t.ell-will (\C.oCCIll\ to postel'il.y as that of a l\IORAI. COWAIlD !

0110 of the hest evitlellctls of tIle moral nlltl illtelleet,nal (lep\'flYiI'y of tIlis gCllernt.ioll is the c1eit1cation of brute force. This is the gOt! of the m1lble, nllc! they slal'islrly ndllliro tho,e who have becil blcsscd with a pOltion of his pOWCI'. The (]cspel':t,lo, t.he pirate, Ihc Ilighwtly l·t.'\)II('I', alld, ill faet, c"cl'Y ~eoullllre\ who II:Is tli~tillgllishctl ltilllsplf by t.he cxhil)itioll of !'nlte foren IIllt! eouragc, \ICCOIllC8 t.lle ollj('c(. of illt.cnse illl('rc."t; allll n;llllirat.ion Il) the ullthinking, grossly ignorant IlIt<itil.lIde. IJe i:, nil idC'nl hel'O to thelll, Livillg, Ilc is rcgard"l! with respect flllt! awe; lll'ml, he is spokcll of a~ haying been

a grcot nlltl Ilcl'oie cltfll'acler. 'l'hc dcifying of force is not only nb"ul'll alld iI'I'lIt.ioll:i1, but lont1~ to ('xtlclllcly PCI'.

llicious rcsulls. It is the kl,is of Ihe opillion thnt "mi"ltt makcs ri.~ht," a 1I0tion which is the l1e lJills 11111'(/ of il'l'ati~ll. al i t,y .-1 'Iatol/ist.

Ullllcl' the llcntlillg of "Forgil'pnC'ss alii] Chn~tiscnlPllt" thc JYew lJis)lclIsntioll, cOlllpfiring ils IlIclllh('rs to .Je:'lIs when whippillg Ollt the 1II0lloy-ehallgcrs fl'om the lemple, tnlws 119

ill it;: ('ollfid('11CC', :llItI 11I'o('(I('d'3 1.0 CllllIllCl'fltC' its pnillflll hnt 1111:t1"oitlnl.Je dlltil'.~ 10 tile \\'01'1<1 ill gellcml, IIl1d the illfil]cls nlle!.,t'~'pl.i."s C'''pcc:illily .. ': '1',) \'(!ll1ol'e". it; SIIYR " tho plflguc" of 111I1"(,III.y alii! secpll(,I'11l wlih \\'111('h it. fi!C'ls "bOIiIle! to rcnloll.ql'aI.C, .J ESUS-LJKE" (!)-" hOII'en'l' p:lillflll the la"k. i8 a I'"tlllllell dilly, whieh JIO beliel'C'r ('an ~llil'k. Tllo Shlll'll ];Ilife of the Hllrgeoll IlJU~t Ctlt opcn Ihe fl'.'IC'ring fO!·C. The New ])i~petl"':tl,i()n must C1UISt/SC all,1 he:ti (lll its enemies, of llol/(/tcl'CI' das,,', 1111,1 by :ulilliuiftcrilig stroll~ IlH'dicilICS mnk'e I.holll ('I~'nn. 'rhi.' is not pcr:iollnl rc;:cllllllcnt., htlt. hcnlillg alld COl'rectlO1l (/) IIo who docs Ilot ply I.his IIC'nliltg flrt., lIndcl' God, is OliO of I.lte wor,"t foe,; of Roeiel.y alit.! an 0IJ1JOllcllt o( the lYClll l)isjlclIsatioll, Btll'll IIp c\'ery PI1P(,I' Ihflt brcathes l'e,oPIIIIl1!'llt ,aR ~o IlItlch allti-Di~),enS(1lion tN/Sit. DeFtl'oy III~o tll.e (:ntlre 1,lcrlllllre of ·;IJlt1·t{~/lS (ofcmtir'll which .jlil't,q 1I~1111 11!/lIlc1I~.'J and COJ'1'II/~tlOlI, ,tOI' It 100 is an cnem!l of' (,od anr!. .. oj the In'cscilt lJts)JCnsalioll." ! !

Tile il.alie.~ flrc otll'~-of COl1l'.'C. I\tll, oh, Ccrtilian rOWel'., ! ... IIa;:; Calcnlla (' . .;t.nbli"hed t.hCII,-IIOt. Ol'ell all illtcl'lllIlIcinl ~ec, for that w ,tdd he oilly 1l10tlpst-but all[)l.hr·l· n.. C. Ponti. fic:liit.l', wilh it~ POl/tifc,!' ll/a.limlls, t.he illf:dlible POPC', wit.h its IlIrfe,v E.1·/IIIl,flalorills, it;; In C{{,lIrt Dominc, it.s llJscdi,l'it alll] t.hc wlloln Itl;;tlhl'(luS cOl'tege of Pnpal :tp]lurtcllallce~? for their WOIllWl lIaplcAs Ilnbt1~, fliltl st.ill 1I101'C Ilnforttlllnto Bmhlllo;;, who ~:tl'e 11p S'ulti, but to ncet.·pt (ll/to.da·le fot' t.1Iell1 . .;elv('8 nt ROlllt] fnlul'e tlay! H rcally IVotdl] be' worth lenl'llill.l!; though, bow the /)islJcllsatiollislS cOllle to FilCh

lin illf:dlillilily :lw! power. "Bul'll 11]1 CI'Ny [lapcl' thnt 11I'eat.hc's .. allti.Dis)Jellsation trnch,"; "Deslroy the entil'c lil,('rallll'o .. that Hids with ildidpJit.y" ... " which i" nil ellelllY of the prescnt Disl'ellsntioll"! For;;ooth, we haye to be ]lI'UtlCIlt., it seCIl1~, with tllC'se 1lI0dC'1'1I " l'rill(,cs of Pcace !tIll! A ]Jostlcs of Forgil'clless," of "GoP's DISPEKSATION"!

,Yo kilOII', for we al'e told so by t.hrlllcell'C's, that t,llcy have "110 yilldiet.h'clIC'ss; " Hilt! beillg fltll of "forg-il'Cllcss flild lo\'e," nlltl rice alld WUf.CI', if t.hcy r/wslise Itt, nil, it. is 1I0t ont of" Illnliee" Iwt with I.he solo ohj('()t of cle:'tl'oying "Gotl's cllclllic;;." Tlti:i i" the IUlIgunge of t.lIC lnt':l ITaly Inqtlidtioll -happily 11oftl1lCt.. Otll' Dispen~ntiolliRls being- 11I'CYPlltcll by Inw (0 htl\'ll their llcl'l'tics tliey 1'l'ocC'('cl-al\\,nys ill a spirit of chnrity, of [:otlr"o--to c1iastise the" (,lIcllJiPS of Got!" throtlgh lit.tlo vilt> [(nt! "inllt]eI'OllS ni.l,:wks UpOIl t.hnt encmy's )1riYltie (~llnI'llC'l.f'I'S [(IPI C\"('II 1.I1()f:C of t/H'il' dallghlers, altfl~ks epitoillized ill ,; flllIl,\' nlld (,h~('elle r:oIT('sIHllldenc('s," ill orgau~ "tllllll'l' the dislilli,(tli"hcd patrol1ftge of tlie 1'lol'ltPt of IIle 11'''10 1Ji.~/JClls(ltio1/."-if \YO JUlI'e t.o \Jcliel'e the ]]1'0111110 Filblic Opinion (.Jtlly 7). The mngistratl's who may 01' mfly not he anti.J)isprllsrtlio7lists l'cc()gllize the lihcl 1111'] clwstise in their ttlI'II t.he wCllpon, the Ilnn']rclllllilling prudenlly invisible. Thtls arlct], t.he COl1si,qlio rid J)ied-tlle tcrribl1l "Cotlncil of Ten" of Ihc Vellctian Doges of 01<1, wllo~e memhers re· mailled cre\' ill\'isildc behill(1 't.heir llIaf'ks in the prcsell()e of the aectli'l'tl t.o btl " chast.ised," brotlght !lorore tltem ill the secret Itall of the Dogal palaee, flIH! wlto lInyeilct] Ihcir fnccs, but whetl pl'a.lJill,f/ and fllorifljill!l God-Jlllblicf.IJ ...... •••

Tho eYldf' is \,lInniIt~ dow II HIIlI lililigs hark to liS ill its vortcx thc thillgS that. were-hy faithfully rCl'rotlltl'illg them. So we ha(1 the l\Iosnic Dispel/sation, Ihc tnblcs of slone" written willt the fingcl' of God," a cllllricl' sigll(,t] :1t11] sealcc! by .Jchomh hilllf'elf. Theil came the Cllristifln lJis)'l'lIsation, written by authors unknown, aliI] chfll'tcrcd hy COllslantillc. But ollr centllry prC'scnts \1,'1 witlt two .LYew Dispc l /sali07ls Ht once: the "Spil'it.l1al"-chllrlered by the" Allg(~ls" anc] t.he" Habn· Kpshubinn;:," 1I!00 claiming a chnrt.cr as t.lte rest. Oilly our Disppilsation No.4, is nn evident illlprol'ell1ont., upon itR pre· dcce.ssors, as its "Apost.les" inform us; & a kind of n. Re-Revised l3iblc, willt neilan's JCEIlS in it, linel! wil.1t Clwitan.lJa and ])l'op]I('11 hy l\TaltollIet and Sokrat.cs. It. is ",riUcn 011 some· tlJillg ItS cltlrnhle ns tIle "tah!ps of f't.onl's,"-and us t.l'flnsccnclentnl-nfllllely-on the o\'C'rhcfltc,! tnhles of tho grny mfltici' of I Ill' " :\Iinistel'';;'' cerebcllum.. The ,clIBory ganglia hr:ill~ ahllol'lllnlly l'xeilcd lit the expcnse of the hClIlisphf'l'eS of thc brain, llOnce-the llclll~iol\ ofa Nissio in partes injidelium;

THE TH~OSOPHIST. [Al1gust, 1881.

thnt. i\Iission t.o t,he Ilnbelievers, the c1enr perccpt,ion of which makes 0\11' Cnlcntt/\ PI'ophet nS~llme nn nllt.hol'ity nml isslIe J],tlls /\s if he had n whole host of celestinl Sipnhis with flam­Ilirr sWOI'tls behind his bnck to cnforce them. Indec(l, his JJe~vly-cstahlished rite, that of haptism in /\ CnlclIt,ln" .Jortlan­tank" was /\ hrilliant hle/\. Nothin~ can prove more hcneficent to tho IIH'mhOI'" of tho" New Church" t.llnn daily and full immcrsiolls in icc-cold watl'r. The Arlilll!ton Co. oll.gllt t.o cn t.el' i II to i mllle<1 iat.o IIf'got.iations wi th tho "A post.les" fOI' furnishillg them with pneu'matic ice machines.

A COITl1'lpondent of the JJIOI'1'ay and /I,r,/;,.Cl' E,l'/ll'eH lIe­scribc~ in t.he following wiso 1\ "Scotch Wako" al'onlill the (lend hody of 1\ friend:-

In this cliligld.clle,1 cOllnt.I'Y, wl<ol'e we h'la;:t. so II1l1eh al,ont 0111' " Gospel 'light 1111(1 Go;:pel lih"rt."," all<l 11101'0 especinlly in this nort.llcrll COli II try. whcse people han', from eHl'ly nges, bccII ac('n~t.ol11e<1 to IIphol<l, oftell with tllcil' IiCHI't.'S blood, religion.; principles with a Hcry zcal alltl dct.Cl'Illination again HIIII a,gain d('lIollnce(1 liS P"I'O fanat.icism, nll<1 who hnvc cI'ur p~l'~ecntcd lax mOl'lllil)" 01' Illl)'thing Ilpproar:hin~ t.hel'cto, to thc bittel' ('lid, tho follolVill~ incidellt Illily np]lcnr nltogrthcl' illl'.l·ctliblc ; hilt. wo nrc I()II 10 hcliPl'o tlllll, thc fnets liS hcre state(llIr(1 011 the lIIild side of tho truth.

1'hcro ha(1 Ii 1'('(1 fOI' more thnn!l IInnrtel' of a e('n IIlI'y ill I,ho lIPighbol11'hoo(1 of t.he Yi\lag(1 of L,-, 1I0t n hl1lldl'ed llIileR fr01l1 Elgin, al1 ilHlivi<lnlll whom fol' the prescnt, PIlI'IHI!'O we ~hall ('1111 Pelel' the Berndt. 'Ve hlll'C snid "Iivcd" hpcnllse Prtcl' lin's 110 morr. Tl'lIly hi~ life hml hecn n elJ('qllcre<1 0111'. Unowlled hy his Idll. he 1(I'('d 1111 alone ill Ilisowlilittle t,hatehe,l ('ot,tagr ... ...... But. although drscl'ted uy his kindrcd, his pcripatctic hahit.s hatl ellable,l hilll t.o furm a wido all<1 variP(1 Ilcqnllintnnce;:hip, /l1l<1 hc ha(1 f'riclI(l~ IIl1d well-wishors 1I0t a felY, who had Illw:1Y, II kill<1 WOI'(1 (II' I'el.ol·, ami who per/HIps occasiollally cheere<I his dreary life ill II 1lI0ro pl'lll'.tieal III 1111 lieI'.

III COllfOl'lllit,y with the laws of Nntllre, Pet.el· I1nishc(1 his cnrthly pilgrimage [It 1\ good old IIge, nll,1 it is with t.hat part of his hist.ory-if we call spenk ofa man hlwing a hh;tory nflel' his lleerasc-thnt, wo ha\'o pl'e~clltly t.o dCIII. 011 thc night preccding his fllneral, n few of thosc who in life IlllIl hccil his cOlllpllniolls malc :t1l<1 femlllc, Ilsscmhled in his cot.tage to keep "irril ol'er the corpsc- t.o spcnd thu Inst lIight they cOl1ld !'pCllti Oil'" (1al't.h wit.h thcir late frien(l; IIn(1 t.his if, how t.h(1Y ditl il. Tea was hrewc,l, 1111(1 so was toddy, !In(1 hot.h Howell rOl1l1d Iho tllhlo freely. A lit.tle difliclllty arose 011 tIle ~l1l'.icct, of the sHi<1 t.ahle, il1l1~1I111Clt a~, 111ltil tho IIndel·t.akcl' lln<1 illl 11I'ol' isetl one Ollt, of thc hoar(ls. Oil which t.he botly of t.heil· whilom fri(1Il(1 hnd latply heell F!retehed, t.here was nol, fin Ilrt.ielo of that .leseript.ioll Oil t.he prellli~es. At the comlllCllcellH'lIt of t.ho ('\'ellin<t was decor11111 IlIHI solemll grRvily wcll b('littillg tll(1 oceasi;;l. Bl1t Pl'C'Hl1ll1nhly fr01ll the drcel~ of t.he tea, hy nll<1 hy, the spil'it.sof the clIlIlpnlly 11l'g:11I to 1II0ll11t l1p until the greatestmirt.h an(1 jollity prentiled, alltl SOOIl all sellsu of deccllcy was losl. Bottle IIftel' hot.tle was emptic<1 wit.h nlnr111illg rapi(lity, volle.v /\ftur volley of coarse jests nlld rihal,I jokcs elieite(1 penll1ftc\' ]lcal of heflrt.y laughtcr, song (olloIVc<1 story. !tllll st.ory ~llccce(I(~(1 song, anll, jlldgil1~ from t.I~(\ 1'01l1l.tlS of IIpplnllse, t.he further l'emove(1 thcse wcre fr01ll helng reelt.al,Jo the bet.t.cl· wcr(1 t.hry nppreciate.J. "Catch the tell" was pro­posetl nlld ]Irompt.ly pr,)c('e<k(1 wit.h. '1'he oilly lable tIle place cOIlI,1 boast of W!lS occllpied, hut tho collin li(1 was admit,tcllon /Ill hmills 1.0 be eqIHdly ~crviceahle, when nil 11llS11rlllOlllltllhlo t1ifllelllty 11I'csente(1 it.sclf-thcre was llot a pack of ennIs to he fOllll(\. "Lct. liS scI, IIp Petm' IIntl ~ee holY he will look, just :tl1other 011CC," proposps Olle, anel the suggest.ioll is illlmediatf'ly ()nrricd int.o effcet. \Villiug IlI'IIlS f[uicldy set the coinll nlld its oecllpanl. into tho corncl', 1l1l11 all take /\ long I[lst look of t.heil· d"parteri frielld, 501l1(1 expre~sillg t.heil· views 011 his conditioll ill terms not to be rcpe/\te(1 hcre. A war-dance is cxeellted 1'01111<1 nl!1 corpse IIIHI tho riot is continued-but wo lIlllst not follow tho scono fnrt.her.

An,l t.hl·oughout /\11 thi~ night of riolious disol'tlcl', Rtllrk RIU] ~tiff in t.heil· dllrk corner lay the ghast.ly rcmains of him who hut a few (I!\ys Ilgo hall 1lI0vecl about IImong those prcsent, but who was now unconscious of their conduct.

Rumoul' hilS it t.hat more t.han ono of the;:o who t,ook pnrt in tho orgie~, hall t.o he assistctl home 011 the followin~ mOl'1ling, only a fcw hourd be foro the church bells bcgan to call them to public worship.

In tllO Ilfternoon, tho rcmains of theit· departed friend were follo'Ne(1 t.o t.hcil· last resting-plnce hy most of tho mlllo inllflbit. nnis of t.ho village.

1'he friell(1 nn<1 brothel' who scnlls liS t.I10 nhove from Seot.lillltl a,lds intel'('sling p:Jrt.iculfll·s. "The nlJo\,(1 eorl'espolldent," ho writ.es "might hal'o givcn tho nccollnt. ROII10what fllller. TIIcstory howe\'cl', is A FACT. I know t.he deceased '*' ~; *' who II'n~ 1\ I'at.her eccent.ric m:1l1. IIll wns vcry .fon<1 of GeololTv. filHI wns ill the posse;:sio:·. of snme ('xcellcnt.·fossils wh ich hc I~~t\ dl1" from t.he Iit.tlo brook t.hllt. wol111l1 through Ids glll'llen. si~ Ho(lcrick Murchisoll at. one time calletl upon hil11 and pUl'cllns(1t\ n few FpecillH'II!'. The plnce i3 nliont tWl'lve llIill's from my rC!'idcllr:o. The l\1.ove PUn(IClllOnilllll pl'uc('(linrr t.hc lIi"ht"f Ids I'll nc 1':1 I is I'lIthcl' wulr/' wl'it.ton. They t.ook tllo corp~e of t.llc old man from the erlllin, ;:toot\ it upright ill a comer, nnd kept his lint. UpOIl hi" hr·a'\. Two nuigh1.onring 01<1 women w('ro present, who, in a {(~\V hOIlI'f, got, & notoriOllsly drnnk; olle of t.hn dal1~hter~ of Iho dceellsell wils alst) pl·escnt. ~nd got so hCllst.ly intoxicated Ih"t sho Ilati to hc cllrriPtl to the nciglihourillg Yil1nge -Llhandryho-llext 1lI0rnilig (SlllldIlY). I hcliel'u olle of thc sons WIIS IIlso pre;:cnt, in t.his eompnny of frif'n<l;:. The two oltl WOlllf'n I fonnprly allu(lcll 1,0, aftcl' hllvillg gonc home nl)(1 slept {(JI' lin hOlll' 01' 50, rctlll'nc(1 to rellcw their di,gustillg intoxicnt.ion" ..... .... Scotland is-we beliovc-tho scat of tho III os I. rigid Presl'ylel'iauism ?

A~ ncithel' n J,!:O:lSO is alllr1l1clI \'y gn~gling, 11:)1' a shecp by I,klltillg ; so lIeithcl' hc YOII terrific(1 by the voice of II sensclpss 1IlIdtitll·lc. As YOIl tlo not. cOlllply with II lIInltitude whclI it illjudieiously :1;:ks of you IIny pad, of )'0111' oll'n property, so Ill'ithcl' bu dii'collcel'tet\ by II IIIOU when it ciltienyors to force YOII to lilly 1111jll3t compliance.

A ,EnY J,FFICII,~T !\JEDIU)[.-A weinl an(1 stm·J.ling story comcs fl'OIl1 Rhel'ill's Mound, Dubuqlle cOllntry, to th(1 effl'ct thnt olle of t,he seltools ill Ihat. well-I<lIo\\'1I vi:·init.y lias been lli"llIiB!'ell on IICCOUllt of t.he huililillg hcillg halllltc<l, It IIPPCIII'S that olle of the schnllll''', II gil'l/\bout fourteen yenl's old, is tllo especial" ],lItt" of the spirit thllt IlIlUllts th(1 bl;ildillg. She fl'(1-qllcntly excl!lilll~:-"Thpre he is !"point,illl! to nil invisihle o],jeet ill thc 1'00111, which slic snys i~ 1I11l:ln. "He has llit lilt) ngnin ~', she cl'ics out. " right hel COli t.he elhow 1I11t! in my I'ih~." 'rhe /.cnehcI· ],c:ng thus consfnntly allnoyml sen I. for II pnst.Ol· t.o 1l1l1'1l­"cl t.he myst.cl'Y if possible. Whcn he !Il'l'iI'e([ the lit.He girl whose IIl1l1le is withheld, mitl ~ho saw 1\ mllll 1'1I1111ing nbout tho schoolhollse, jlllllpin~ oycr tlesb, !'cnts, 1111(1 the heatls of sell 01 ill'S,

nn<1 f'lItt.illg up 1111 sorts of "nt.ies, eVPIl t.o pillchillg 1111(1 striking Itpr. The llIystCI'Y wa~ illcl'raooell when thc WOI'.\ "Tellfel"(Dcl'il) suddenly nppPIIl'e(1 011 the l,]nckhnlml, nppal'Plltiy written by 1111 ill\'i,,'il.le hand. This somewhat slnrtle,] nil pl'escnt, nnd tli;) school teacher, iI, is said, cxclaimed, "That's too lIluch ; wc TIl list elose t.he hou!'e." It. is !'tatet! dUlt t.ho spirit has followed" fhp little /1;irl t.1 hcl' hOlllc nll<1 t.lwl'o Ilnnoy~ hur HlId Iter peapl!', _Dubllqite (Iowa) Herald, Feb. 18.

A NOyET. JlAnmmTl<:n WAS DISCOVERED IIY A~ OLD SPO!tTS­

mnn in /I f'pi(lel"s weh, wllich Ite e:Ircl'lllly pl'e'ClTeS in hii! hOII::C. \Vhrn the' imcct.l1llds it Ilccc:,~al'y to short.cll the thl'ond~ which f;USPf'II(1 tll(1 ",eb, min nnd wind mlly ho f'xpeete(l; if reef~ he luI. ollt, fine wentlicl' is cel'lnill : if thc Epidcr l'('mnin3 inel't.,l'flill will prohably follow witllill /\ Fhort ti1l1c.':­(Rcl.-Fltil. JOIl1'1lfd.) -_._ ... ----

TADLn OF CONTENTR.

ra~e. P'lge. Olll'Thir<l yenr ............... 22!J The "O,~clllt 'Yorl(l" nnd

Alltirl'lity of the VedaR 2:),Q The Five-Pointctl Star ...... 240

the" Spi ri tll:llist."...... .. 2:lO Stonc-Sho\l'cl',~ ............... 2:n

Oq,1 is Phosphorus ............ 2H lJinlln Prophets alill As-

The Bible Hcvisioll ......... 2:3:3 The 1\Iot.her-L:lll(l of Na-

trologers ..................... 242 :;\LllI II erR alll\ Cu;;tOlllS of

tions ............... , ........... 2:34 the Aryalls .................. 244 Racl'cll Illllian Tl'ees ......... 2:)fi Tothc Himalayan Brothers ... 24f) The Beni Elohim ........... 2:)7 Paragraph Flnshes from the Spotless 1\1 1ll',lerCl'R ......... 2:38 FOllr (~lInrtCI'8 ............... 2-W

Pl'intcd nt the lilrin'/I';,t/ PI''"',' by B. Cm"ct,jcc ,'<. Co" nnrl pnhlisher\ by the'l'heoR0l'hicnl Society, nt Bl'eflch Cnn,!y, Bomhny. '

S UPPLE~IENT TO

TI-IE TI-IEOSOPIIIST· VOL. 2 No. 11. BOMBAY, AUGUST, IHHl. No. 2:1.

OUll lWAjY('I!ES. TIlE BOMBAY THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. Trm COLOlIrno TrrEOSOl'lfWAL SO('JETY.

Itf'ms [oj' JuTy. Tho NATTO~AL EnUCATION FUND.-J)millg tIle past

month Col. Olcot.t hn.s bccn carryillg on his work with l1sllal [Htivity. Since tIle h\f~t rcport he hnR addrcsscll antliellces flt Snpngkddlflllrlhfl., l'nlllflllkfltlfl, non,lb, Onlkissa, l\lol'llf.llwfl., KotalleilJa alld Malig·akllfl.lldlm; has organized anll 1l(~ld a Convention of Prif'st.R at COIOlllUO, which will be remembered in t.he history of Sinhalese BlIddhislll ; taken over on belmlf of tho Society two schools; and got throngh the lIn'ss tlilee fonrl,lls of the matter for English and Sinhalese versiolls of his Buddhist Catechisill. The Rev. Ml'gittuwatte has R}lolwll for tllC Nationfl.1 Fnnd at all tIle aho\'ell[llllcli gatherings excppt Oalkissa; tIle High Pricst H. Sumallgnln (Nayaka Ha1l1drn) spoke at Malirrnkhandha and Pamallknda. The fl1nds now amollnt to l)etwcell nOl. 4000 nllli Rfl. ;)000, awl 11

Jar.go i Ilcrease is expectclI shortly. * Tile SOClln'Y'H ANNlVEI\SAItY.-OIl SIll](lay,.Jlily 3\'\1, the

nnnivenmry of the Cololllbo Society wns celebratcd with areat. enthusiasm. Fifty-sevell ])]e11l0CrS sat down to M , I' dinner ill the lect.me-hall at om Heall-ql1arters ; t Ilrty others were llI\a\'oillnbly absellt" 'rhe room llall been elecrant.ly deeoriltell with flowers, a.1ll1 "ariol1>! lertvefl HlIIl Spl~Yfl ;' on the wall, in English allli Sillhalesc, wns in­scril;cd t.he motto, " For Buddhism all.! the BrotiterhoOll of Man" . and at olle end WMl 8kctchc'11 a hrown anll a white lta:1l1 clasped, allll o\'er tllem the magical w?l'<l .< BnoTII EHIfUOP." Tlte tables prcsent,cI I a most rlttractt ve nppearallce, allll everything was .io,YolIs-:-a feeling greatly cllilnncell hy t.he fact t.hat the IInllRllal SIght. was prescntell of lwrsolls ~f all the jil'illciJllll r((Sif'8 8itlill,ll ((nd cntin'l to,/l't/II'I'. After dillner, addreflscs were made hy Andrew P~rcra Eflll., President of the Colombo Sncil'ly, by Col. Oleut!, find DOli lhstiynll, all(l the annual ]'eport was rcall by the Scc-rdar)'. . .

A hnnllsollle llinll1llntl nil£{ was then presented to the Seeret.arv, W. F. Wijn.ysekc]'e, Esq., by the Rociety in recoglliti/;II of his in\';,lllabill allli l1nself~Rh scrvices, Col. Olcott makillg', hy reqllest, the l~reflelltnt~on :Hhlr?ss. Hifl cOlld'.lllillrr remark that" the lliamollll IS tlte long of g'e III S, anti, "'therefore, 1I10st tit to give to the Prince of '8c('rctariC's", \vas cheerC'll to tlJC echo. The membcrs thell fldjOll1'1lC'11 to the hl1siness rooms at] [cflll-quarters allli hel;1 tIle nlll\ll[tl ('1l'ctiOIl wlliclt reflllltctl as follows: O/lit:r'l's It)}' lKKl-PIl.ESIDENT, Andrew Perera, ES(l'; V'WI<:-Plli';'.:IDENTS, Simon de Rilv:t Ka.l'llllHratlH', Esq., Mn!tandil'lllll, :I I\! 1 R. Tq1anis Perera Est[.; SI';CIu<:TAH\', W. F. \VijaynRekere ESll.; 'l'rmAsuHI,;n, S. l~. ])llarma Goonevanl:uw, Esq.,; CO{TNCILfPns, Don ])and AT~poo­hanlllli, D .. r. (Jooneratne, Aracltchi, C. ])on Bastl,Y,m, Joha1l1lC's De Mel, B. ITnrll1anis Coorny, N. S. Fel'lJando, alHl C. P. Ooonewanlellc, Esqrs. The f('eling WfiS so gooll 011 tit iR occasion t.ltnt Rc\'cml mem berR came forwflnl fin (1 withollt Rolicit.nt.ion offered to increase their m01lthly Rllb­script.ion towards tlte local Soc.ict:(s exyenscs to ~~fl. G ('ach per lllonth Om Branch l~, III )1(;I,nt of fflet., Jll • a 11 igh st.atu of proRperit.y fLnel force of life anll zen.l, m pI:'lOf of which certaill items will he sent 'y~m next month which it woulli be jnst now prematll1'e to disclose.

K. L. DON UlIAnLEs, Assist.ant Secret.ary.

--;-'Vc l~.;;to rCI~,1 ollr readers thot not one pie goe. from the R,{IlClto tiollal /1 ulI~1 to tho Parent Theo~ol)hicnl ~oci~t.r. rl'!~c mO,lIo» n~ ~hown l,dnw ttl }Jflrn.~Tnph :K'o. 2. fl1wtCtl from the (1.'.'11011 7 /llIe.~, 1S, lUltllctllat.ely upon it~ \ICitl.g' collected, tnrnc(l ?"cr to the trllstc{l~ r-:cl~ ... ctCfft. v:ho ha.ve already opene,l a forlU~1 acconnt 111 the Balik of Ma,\rl\S, --ED. 11l~t)~.

A meeting of the Society was hellIon June 2(1, 1881, to reviRe the Bye-Laws as preparetl in the Council· mcet.ing a lid to cOllsidel' proposals for the reception of MI'. A. P. Sinnett, Vice-President of the Parent Theoso. pllical Society, who was expectell to arrive here back from Ellropu by the P. ll1ul n. Company's mail steamer of the 40th .J Illy. A committee of Llle following three gentlemen wafl appointell to receive him a.t the Company's :Ma:wgaon Dock Oil hehalf of the Bomhay Society :-(1) ])r. n. E. Dudley; (2) Mr. K. l\T. Shroff ; (:1) Dr. Pnndllrnng OO]>fll. As, however, the steamer unfortunately nlTivell but late ill the evening, Mr. Sinnett wonlll not wait ulltil she was taken to tho Mazaga.on Docks in the mOllling, 1mt got down immediatel.y at the Apollo Blinder allli proceeded to the Headoquarterfl, tIle comllli ttee :tllll t!te cfH'riltge sent for him tlJ\1f! missing their expectell guest.

Next c\'cnillg. JlIly G, at 8-!W 1'. :M., a specinl lllepting of the Society was held, w!tell the President., Dr. ])\\(lluv, took the c11air. Aftl'r a sllOrt speech, Ilo\\'cver he rCRiO'nell it in fayonr of Mr. Rinnett wllo kindly c;msented 'to pcrsonully illitiate several now candi· datcR that wC're then wait.ing olltside. After that, the mlldidatcfl, accOlllpaniell each by his two sponsors, were admitted illto tlill lhll. Ha\'ing explninC'11 to t.hem the Imitue 1l11l I ohjects of the Society, ]\[1'. Rinnett askell them if t.hey w;'re really to take the obligation as sta!e,l in the Pmcnt Soeiety'R Hevisetl Rilles fur ISH], HavlIlg recei\'etl a reply ill t:110 nffinnative, 1](' ftllminifltl'red it to them anti after 11Inkil~g them sign it in preR.CI~C? of wit· IICRReR, the Vice-President proceed cd to IIlJtwt.e tllclll. The cerelllony ovur, he gave t.lie~n 11 is hand ()~ fellow~lti]l and exprcsi'cd f1. bope tlwt thell' lIew relat.lOns might prove beneficial both to tile Societ,y an,l to the])1sclve,s.

Mr. Sinnett was then rellllefltell hy sOllie of the Fellows l)re~ent to nive the Soeietv some particlllars

to J "I . I about Ilis new book-" TIn; OCCULT WOHL]), w IIC I mallY of the III uJI'llssi 1 Mc~nbers wOllld not perh~ps Itave a chance to rcad. To t.llls lie allswerull that It wott!ll take a IOlto' tillie to recapitulate the contents of the book; lmt lie wo~ltl explain how he was lell iuto writing it anll givp a general itlm o~ its yurpo.rt. He then o'aye an aceollnt of the manner 11l wllwh IllS correspolld­~nce with one of the BrotherR of the First Section sprang IIjl, how it .gTew ~nll de\'elol~ed,. ntHlllow he Waf;

at laRt stmck WIth tho Hlea of pnbltshmg extracts from llis correspolldent's letters. for the benefit of tl~e world at large. He also stat ell Ills reasolls For OfJi1'lIIllIfJ 1II0St

llGsitirc7.'1 !.lmt thcse lettcrR were wl'Itteu h~ a. penlOn qllite diflercut froJll Madame B1a~'atsky,-a foolIsh. sus­pi.:iOll C'lItertained by sOllie. sceptICS. It was physlC(l/l/l il/l]>u,~si1J/e, he said, th!lt tillS coul.tl be th? case ; an(l there ,,:ere other vahd reasons for assertlllg that not only was sbe lIot their author, hut even 1110131. of the tin~o knew 1l0tliill rr of their contellts. Foremost among these stood tlw fact that their st..vle was absolutely different from that in which Madame B1avatsky wrote, and for al,y one wllo coultl apprecin;te ~h.C' lIi~eti?s of litem~'y Rt.yle, there is as llIuch absolu~e lIllhyHlllal.ltY)]1 style as IU

handwritillg. Apart from tillS cOl1flJllemtlOll, however, :Mr. Sinnett drew attention to some incillellts 1I10re fully de­scribell in the book itself, which shOWell thflt a telegram for llim waR hamlell into the telegraph office at Jhe:lUlll for transmission to him at Allahaball in the hallllwriting of the celebrated letters. Thifl telegram was an answer to a letter from hilJt to t.he "Brothel''' which he had enclosetl

SUPPLEMENT TO THE THEOSOPHIST, [August, 1881.

to Mmlame Bl:watsky then at AmritslIl'. It was des­patched within au honr 01' two of tbe tillle at which the letter was d?livered at AmritslU' (as the postmrtl'k on the envelope Wlllcll was afterwards retllrnrd t.o hilll eOllcln­sively showcd). A complete cllaill of proof ~I'as tlms affonled to show that the hanllwriting' in which all the ~rotber's letters were written was celtainly the produc­tIOn of some persOIl \\' 110 1("(18 not Madame Bin vatsln'. He went on to explain that a final amI ahsolntdy eOII~illeillCf proof not 0.11y of the fnct that tile letters wore the work of a per~oll otllor thfll.l Madamo Blavatsky, hut rilso of tho wonderful contl'Ol of gonerally lln known lIatll ral l:,\\'s, which that person cxrrcised, had hecn afl'onlell to him on the very 1Il0l'llilig o~ the day OJ[ which ho was speakillg. l~o I!flll be?" oXl'?ctlllg a reply to a roo(mt lettor of his to IllS Illllst·1'I0m; fnoncl Koot Hoomi, and after hreakfast whilo he was sittillg at a t.ahle ill tho full light of day the expectell allswer was sllddellly dropped, nllt of Ilothillg, on to the tablo 110£01'0 him. He expiaille,l all the circl1lll:­stflnC:8 ullder which thi8 lUlll occur rod, circnlll8t.ance8 which not olily precludell tho idea tiJat Madame Blamtsky ~allll no othcl' persoll was preseut in tho flesh at. tho tllHe-cotlld hn,vc beoll i1l8trttlllelltal in causing the letter to appear, bllt made the mOl'e hypothesis of any fm\ld in the matter eOIl tOin pti bly ah81lnl.

Mr. Sinnett then concluded by saying that he would leave fllrthcr proofs to those who wO\lld rcad his book, of which. however, Iw read alo\ld the deuication which ran as follo\\'s:-

" To OM whose cOllllll'elu'J/.sion of J.Y((tllJ'e (I!lll 1 !nma­?lity }'UIl[lI'S so/a)' ucyoJUl the ,r..,·c}>nce (fl1cl Phifo.<ol)hyof Eu)'opl', that oll7y the bI'oadest-mil1ded 1·epl'l'.9cntaliL'Cs 0/ eilhe)' I('ill lie aMe to realise the c,ristell('/] oj' welt powerlj in Jllwl as those lw cOllstantl!} e.;t;el'cises,-Io

KooT T-IooMI LA!' SIN(J][. 1I7108e !l1'(leiong ./i·ienrlsh ip has !liven Ill!! Ftesf'lil 11}}'itf'l'

!tis title to claim the allclltion (!/ tlte Dlt}'ol)ean 1('()}·ld, tlti8 little 1'olnme, 1uith l)ermissivn, ,~ouyltl alld outailletl,is aJ1'ecfiOlwte1!) cledicnte(l.

A. P. SrNNETT." It warn1ol1 the heart of en~r'y nn.ti ve member present to

soe nn ElIglishmnn, of literary distinctioll payillg so much respect allLl reverence to a. Hindu mYi1tic. N atiollal pridc was llPon every face, aUll out' members IIlllst h:we rea­lised how beneficial ihe exertiolls of .Madamo BhlYa.tsky and Col. Olcutt had provell in this directiull.

Mr. Mool'ad Alee Beg, the President of t.he" Saomshtr Theosophical Society," who was also prescnt, thell rose up an(l sn.ill he 11<1<1 A'nOW!! Hnll san t.hese Brothers not ouly after he llall.ioilled the Society, hut a long timo bef')re that. But how ho came to know aUll convcr8e with them ns well as other particulars abol1t our First Section, he was not at liberty to give Ol1t to the world. Sevoral otlier mombel'8 also rose I1p and gave thoir testimony as to their having seen these mea personally on \;arious occasions at the Head-quarters a8 well as in athol' places.

Aftor a vole of warm thanks to Mr. Sinllott, anel a pnrt­ing speech from tho President of the Bombay Br:1nch, the meeting wns ncljolll'UCII.

7th Jllly, 1881. TOOKAllAo[ TAl'Y,\,

]'/'0. 8ecrrtar!J' .. Extracts fl'om all. f!/Jiciul leltel' fl'om the TINNEVELLY

'I'll EOI;OPHICA L SOCIETY. Jl1ne 28,IS81.

...... I am incxpres~ibly glad to fmy that wo inftllg'\lI'atctl tho TINNEVELLY Societ.y at om TeI18ildnr'i1 h0l18e, on Mon­day, the 27th illstallt at. 7 o'clock P.)1. All the Executive Officer8 for the CUlTon t year wcrc eloc(,e(l.

Amollg thom fire Mr. O. V. Chil1natllneby Pillia­Presillent [tIlIl Troasll\'cr; and Mr. R. Sllllllram Jyel'­Secretary.

Yon Illl1st Ilflye receivell at the Hcad-f)llal'ter8 a copy J sellt yon of Illy translation into Tamil of Col. Olcot,t'8 IjecLnl'o on the « Past., Present, nud Fntlll'e of Tuelia," pnhli8hed ill t.lie TlIE<lSOPIIIRT ... 'I'he ilit,el'l'i;t an,] sym­pathy toward:> our Societ,y among the TinllC'velly IJ\;blic

especially hy the pllhlication of the above-mentionell t.rans­latioll, nre really wOllllerful and unexpectecl .......

S. RUNDMM lYEll, F.T.s.,

To Jh'[ODAn K. l\lAYALANKAH, Secl'I'I((I'Y·

Joint Uecol'dinf) Sec}'(!t(()·y of the Fm'enl Society.

RAOHASHTR nltANCH. "Tn the IToad-(ptal'ters of tIro Theosophical Parcnt

Society. "Owil.lg' to obvi~lls reasons, in the newly-established

Branch htt.le practical work has yet heen Ilolle. The work of org'lllization i8 !lot yet cOlllplete. Olle of ~ho 1Il?lIlb.or;;-~Il' .. Jall1sedje~ Naorojee-is engage,l ill llIvcstlgatlOns lIlto the e8otel'lC 1ll0fluillCf allll occnlt. siCfui­ficance of certain passages oftbe Zellll~3\.vest.a. ,Ve I~ope to jlllhlish the r08lLlts ill the THI':OSOI'HTST f;hortlv.

" We have Ilal] several applications more for memhership awl hope to report real progress next time."

.MIRZA MoonAD ALI Brw, F.T's., A ct ill!) r resident of l/te SaOI'Uslt/l' Theo801Jldcal

Societ!) at JJ/t(WII(I!](tl'. .Jnne 1881.

lP~nrr. Charles E. Taylor, of St. Tholl1fls (We.st Tn'lies), to whom a ('barter was dnly sellt., is taking stops to get the St. Thomas Branch officially recogllizell by the Govel'lllllent ..

Onl' Brothel' selHl,; l1S a very intcrestin Cf " Almanack " cont.n.ining an illilstratod fll't.i(;le hy billl~~lf calleel "Dr, Van Hofl'man's Notes ". ,Ve reeoll1l11elHl it to ollr Follows.

THE BlUTTSH THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 'Vo llavo receivell no officiall'cpol't a'l yet from those

f)nl1rtors t.hong-h wo hope to puhlish tIle Secl·etary's Hoport noxt montll.llilt we gather from a sell1i-oflieial corcsponcl­ence that tho Illlmher of the Fellows is increasing, though om London Brothers are very rnl'oflll in admittil1Cf new membol'8 into their Society, '1.1111 it is on th(~ wlJOI~ diffi­cult to he ndmitted into that body. Its estecmed President, Dr. G. ,Y,)'ld, infol'lils us of all extmordinary opinion helel by olle of its Members-one wllo livod ill 1 1lL1 ia., allll is penwnally acqllainted, as it seems, with a Society of Initiat.es ill Tibet-that" t!/i)SC who {h'e thae in the .~IIOIl' (?) are not al]epts but nnder tminillg', and that a tl'lle adept can ddy all magnetislils alllllivQ in sooiety if ho choose8." Most undouhtelUy he can. No can a lIlan, gradually havillg aeellstollleLl Ilill1self to an over-illcreasillg heat, pass days-if 1I0t alt.ogother liYc-ill a fllrilaee without dying. as reec·nt scielltific experiment8 have proved. So can also a person pass :years in the utter darknes8 of a Rllhtl'l'mneJIl a III I theroby flO weaken his flig'ht ns to lose it cntirely whell sllddenly ('merging illto light ngflill. The qucstion is lJOt" cOll1d the Eastel'll illitifltes" so live or not, but will tht~y, 1lI111 why ShOlllLl they consont t.o do so, lJaving no hetter reason for it than tllC satisfaction of the emiosity of-to theill-an alien !'nce, five-sixtlls of which wonld rc!!anl them as clever i mpofltors allll charbtnns, and the' other sixth­the bei1t Ili8posell to believe ill their psychological powers, regard them a8 wonderful physical mediuIIIs contl'ollel] by "spiritfl". Mr. Sinnett's The Occult World-is a Cfood foeler ill tlmt direction. 0

THE PEKALONGAN THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY . Having hut. just receive(] the chartor, our esteemed Bro­

ther Baron F. de 'l'engnagell writ.es at the dAte of June D, that his grelltest hopes are in t.he help of the Malayan lititiates to foullIl the Branch of Java. It is Soemhartn. and Djoell.ioc:trta. that are the two centre8 wherein nil that remains of the ancient J avaneRO ci viI ization derived from iiindu8 has lately sought and founLl refuge.

I\tW A Charter for the formation of a Branch of the Theosophic~l Society at Haglle, Holland, was applie,\ for by .Mollslelll' ADALllERTH DE BOURBON, a high officer ill

AIIgttst, lS~Lj flU P I) L E l\L E N 'r T 0 l' II E '1' li J.; 0 fJ 0 P lJ I S '1' •

UIO ann,)', nllil furwal'llerl hy uldor uf the l'l'csidcllt amI Couucil (Ill <1uly ;), to the lJagllC'.

AKOTlIl-:Il UIIAllTElt for L1le fonnaLiull uf a Dmlll:h at :r.~llddcl,IJluumh (Dellgal-llillia) was funmrdell Oll tlIC 11th ut Jttly.

OUR CErl~ON WOR}{. The Cl'ylun '1'iJII(,,~, of C~OI01Il bo, of .J ulle fl, uoticing the

guud wlirk of ottl l)resident iu that island, illfunlls ttS of the followillg details :IS to the Buddhist educatiollal lllon:lIlcnt. "The nlUl'elllellt tha.t Col. Olcott alld l\ICglltll­",aLee 1'1 imlt havo 1Illd('rtakell :llIlOlJg t.he Sillhales~ for 1I1U prolilotioll of delJ(lIl1inatioll:ll educatioll, :Jilt! thc dif­fusiou ufrcligiuus iutclli(fence nbollt tlte Bllddhist reli"'ion . .....":1 ' b

IS. progresslIlg' at a satisfactory pace. At t.wo Icctmes glVl'll Oll ~Illl(by last ill tlw NI"J'olilho district much ellt,lllIsiasm was awakclll'd, alHl mon~ tllllll HH. I !)OO were pledged or collectell Oll the spot. This (f)inlJalese Natiunal JJllddhistic Fuud,' ns it is called, is to he mallngl:d by a board of tll'O tl'lIHtCL'S L'Hch in the Uallc, Cululllbo, nud Kalldy pruviuces : the lIlolley to be adl'[llicell 011 first-L'lass secl1l'ities, lUJ(1 the illCOll1O ollly n]lprupriatcrl. The Hlmnl of gralltH ill aid of schuols alld othcr expendi­titre, Col. Ulcutt I'ests in all exeeutil'c COllllllitteo selectcd out of tIle leadillg 1I1L'lIIbcrs of the several br;lllche~ of the 'rheosopllieal Society in the dilll:rellt provinccs. The t\'llstecs ill the Southe]'lJ l'rol'illce arc Messrs. Edllllllill F. UoonerntllL', KaL'hchL'ri .Mudliar, alld f)illlOll Perem, P. and 0. COli t mctor, Galle; 1'01' tlleWL'stel'll Pruvillce, M('ssrs. S. P. JJk\l'llla UoollCWHnh'llo Moll:Jlldinllll, and 11.L'IHll'ick de Silva GO'IIll'SekL'l'a, A]';Iellclli, DOjluty ('mOllC'l', NegOillbu. Those for the Celltral Provillce are lIot yet ap['oiuted."

Again, 011 .Julie 17, tllC papel' above quoted gil'es a satis­factory HCCOUlit of tIle Buddhist I~dllcatioll Fund. "On f)ntur:by last, Col. ()kott spoke at tIle Kelani, a 1111 Ull SUllilllY at the Cotta Temples. TIle SUlil of' Its. :17I'h,:1 ",as added to t.he FUlld. At Cotta ~Jr. Tepnllis l'erem, all inllul'lItial Buddhist gcntlellHlII, lias for tIle past six 1I101Itl1S, llHtilltnillL'd nt his own expellse a schol.ll for BlIddhist h()ys lInder the direction ofa priL'st anll of pail! lay-teacher:;. 'J'his school, ,,,ith a registered liHt of eighty plljlib, he, Oil f)\lllday, forlllally lIIade 01'01' to the care of the Thcosophienl SUl'iety, ngrccillg' to cOlltillllC its SlIp­

port, lInt.il the National Fuml RIIHII have becoll\c large enollgll t.o warm,ut it.s heing talwn in Imllrl liy the 11(~xl'cll­tive Conllllittee. He also gellerolls1y Rubscrihed Hs. 100 tu tIle Flllld. On MuuIla) lI\ol'lling, CuI. Olcott transfL'r­red tile L'ntire fllllllliitherto colleded to the trustees select­ed, and a forlllal account was opL'llL'd ill t he Bank of Madra;:."

TilliS, the first fuulldatiull-st.une of the revivlilof WI­

tional bitl! is laid. BnddhiHIII, RlllUtiJl'rL'rl for several cl'lIturies. /irst, hy the intolcrant bigotry of the Dlltch, then hy tbat of tlie Portugllese, lIlay yet, o\\'ing tu tlie bClieticellt lmd wise ]llllicy of relig'iuus llUll-interJ'l'rollee all tho part of the lJritish, a\\'akL' ollee lI\ore to life amI adivity. Our cstccmell friL'lIds, tIle 11(((71'18, however, are lIot of the sallle way of thillking. TIle lllissiollaries, as we are illforlllod frolll CL'yluu, are gl'UWillg Vl'l'Y ullllap­]lyabout liS. At KoLtu, thc other d:IY, (June :10) tllcro waS a prize-ciiHtl'ibutiuu at the lIlission school, attelldcll by tli(~ Actiug UOVL'l'IIor a III I lllany otlwr oflicials. TIle chief Padri-H.e". Mr. ])owbiggin-praisillg liis Excel­lellcy\; slll'cch-ill whieh he f:wo\ll's religio\lH instruction in the sellOul, gltVe vellt to the followillg ,pious sentimellts, III addressillg the meeting, the Hev. It. T. Dowbiggin " asked thelll to cOlJlpare the wurds of his Excellellcy the Lil'u',.-Uovl'fnur, ,vho saill that learlling without religion was like a buat witlwllt a rudder, with tho:,e of Colouel Olcott who lately calilC to Kotte, amI triell (allli succeed cd 110 sllUllhl hnl'o added) to stir lIjl tllO peoplc to IJllilcl schools in which tllc tl'UI! I'cliUion wOtlld llot be tallght., and wlJ('re lIIall'S cbiof' noed, spiritualllce,l, forgivL'nL'ss of sillS, woulll Jillll no placc. He said t.hat cach of tho Cllristi:ws had a work to do, uamely, to make kuown the llame of Jesus Christ to others. and thnt it wns ~ work

that is espccially given to mon to do, though God coul(l !w.re yil:cn ,it t~ angels,* who would he very glad to do It; and If we dlll not rIo tile work givcn to tiS to do, tbe augels wuulll blame us, aIllI those heatbens who lived about us woulll staml lip ill judgment against liS; and that we shall lmvo to accollut for the blooll uf tho hoatbeu on tllO bst day beforo the Alllliuhty Judo'e."

With~)Jjt goiJlg too d('('Vly illt? the real meaning of tll8 concludlllg llIetaphor, ,rllldl 1lI1"'1It slIuo'est to an 1IIISO-

I .. L • '" ,~", p Ilstlca~ed llllllll an appalling l'ictllre of " heatllen" tlitliwtl'I'/al sOllls being whipped to hlood by the "Alllli<rhty Jlldge"-wc rcmark that His Excelleucy, the Acting Uuvel'lllJr, who, 110 d!lllbt, is a gooll Christiall, won III !i.llrl IlimsL'lf C~JJ)ll)rll~'(l 1Iy Jlis position alld the vory ~'Irclllllstalleos III ,dllCh be was placcd at that 1Ileet­llIg . to say as much in f:wor of the state religiu11 uf IllS uwn cOlllltry allll that of his hosts-the ]l((d'l'is­wore Ilc CVOll as lllllCh of a full-blown infidel as CololJd Olcott hilllsl'lt: The lattcr, however, havilJ!r 110 official jl()sition to lInil him to a faith, preach us an~l spL'aks ill favor of what for hilll is tl'lW I'cligion-Bulldhislll. At all evcnts he has as lllllCh a riglit to (10 so (tmOIJf' the co­religiollists (If his cllUicc, as tIle GovC'l'IIor, alll~nJf'st tho Christians, HIIII far llloro thall the parlris have to "'preaeh thl'ir own alien creed so uutagollistic to Buddhislll-alllOlw Hudd h ists, 1~ or can thc C~lollcl's sillcerit)' be for ()ll~ illstallt (l'lcstionC'11 or evell plaeed on a parallel with that I)f the (Juvel'll!)r, sillco llis actiun is perfectly spontaneolls :wd disillterestCl~, wbil~ t,hat of. th~ Govel'llOr is llIerely 1Il aeeonlallL'e With ofliclal obhgatlOlls. Ally comparison hetween the t.WI) is absolutely irrelevaIlt.

:rhc Cuylon Clu(I'c!t J/i'"siollar.'l Glcal1a is a paper, pl'lntCll at Londull amI sellt to all parts of tho worlll with the \l\:tuk pages to be fillerl ill with local lIews. Since tho iirst appearance of the Themlophical Society ill Ilidia and CI'ylllll, tIle 1110ck amI hllmble Christi:JlI gnzetteors took to slauderillg Hllll proclaililing the" hostility of the Tlieo­sophiL'al DociutJ to Christianity" all OI'er the world alllI l\JllOlIg the" poor heathen" L'spccially. Tile lIat.i ve Christian JHtpers of' Ccylon ate continually tellilJfr the Sinhalose that il~ !ndia ~'ol. Olcott alllll\ladame lll~vatsky II 71l'ctrllcl to be, If llot Illlldus, at. least allvocates of Hindu relirrioll" wliile ill Ceylull the), "profess to be Buddhists." b ,

For Ollce,Ullr well-wishcrs haye-lluculIsL'iously, to thellJ­sches no dnllht-told partially tho truth. The I'oullden; of th~ Tlieo~oJlbical Society ccrtailily do ,liIvocate pure Hin­dlllSIll wlt.h t.ho Hindll, JiIll'C Zormtstriallislll with the l'al'see, alHlZHLl'C tbeislll with their MusslIlnHlll Fellows, ~ince lIothillg' cnn Le more illllllaterial than tho llHtllller of mcn's thillking Oll slll~jects 1I0t accessible to reaS011 awl that sillcerity of jllll'Jlose ill the jl1ll'suit of t]'l\th­whatevcr it limy be-I::; the ollly thing' rC'I"irell ill tlw Theosophical Duciety, the FOllllderl>, who UI'e st,aullch Buddhists-llot of' the "whecl-turuill!r" kind tllOtl"h-. 1 l' II" '" '" JIl .I~l m as Wl' ~tS III Ceyloll, are b~\lllll by the very n:llglOll they profess, and agreeably to Its Ureat FOllllller Ihllldlm's comillallll to respect tho faitliH of their brothors. If asked, why tllCn, do they llut apply tile HftlUO rule of respect to the Christian religion, they will allswer alHl prove til at t,lIey do so. So 100Ig as a Christian lets tho religiun of ot.hcr people strictly nlo11e, and shows it the salllo olltwanl respect as he claims fur his own, he is sure to find II is personal views, t~n~101estorl. . The Society L'nnnts more than one trne Chnstwll nJllono' ltS members, The Theosoph ists set their faces against rho inextricable

• AIHI a g.'cat, pit.y it i'l that. " no,l "<1i,l lIot ,10 eo. It is an a.llllini­stl'nth'e mistake of hi~, as slIch an act wonlrl hn\,(' Pl'o\'crl cUlHlncivc to 11101'0 tbull one lJCllCtlCCllt result for 1'.~ pOOl" Illortnls, namely: (n) to I'l'ovilio' that thct'? were snell tl.lil1~H as Bi,hlienl [l.lIgcl:::" alld th)--(lomOIlf)tl'atill~ t~ ll."'i tile eXIstellco of thUlr Cl'catOl' 11Illl..,clf -that "p'JI";;f)llal 00(1 '1 whoJC \)Cillfr'

lin" hitherto remained not Dilly all OJl~1l qllC . ..;tiOll, bllt :til alH ollff.I,I,/ lltlJ}l'o-: v.1Lle tellet. As tho mat.t.cL' S~i\Il~l.~ tlwll;.!li, such n.:' hide nwl ~eck" policy ICHlb cy?ry ~'c!l:-;ollablc and tll111klll:~' I~l:tll unprepared to accc>pt n"~crtion!i upon blUl" I,ul/, tf, 1'('~llcctfll11y 'l'lC:"tinll tho corrcct,l1c~s of nllirmntioilli a.<; hlill,l wliell Cillall;l.till~ froll! the well-lllcanil1(r, but lIot nlwavs imp:u·tinl })I (I (I' 1.<:, '''lint i:-; truc l'cli~ioll ful' them lII:ly b~ n. t~".~~ olle fo1'" uthcl'.~. \\~~ claim ft'cCI{t>1Il of cowicienco n~ the 1I11n.ssuilablc' rig-lit of c'~('ry fl'cc-hlwn III""" I II the \Vo\'fl~ of (1' Holl<ach:-" If the Christial\ \IIust h",'o !tis chilllorll", let hlln at least lenm to permit athol'S to form thoirs £lfter theil' fashion." -ED. '1'UJlOS. .-'

8 U P P L Ei\l E N '1' T 0 '1' II E T II 1'; 0 8 0 P II 1ST • [August" lKKl.:~

alH~ ~lallgerous morasses uf theologicaL casllistry uf ever!} relIgIOn, for these are the (illicksantis of lllllllan illtellect swalllping man's reason alH! better nature-llllt they ltave lIot a word to say against tlte respcctive FOlluders of tlte variou~ creeds. They regard the moral cotle preac\tcll hy Jesus of N aZal'ctll (whether Itehl as a rcal or an ideal personage) certaiuly as hi<Yh as that of UalltauHt IltH~tlha, Zoroast.er, or .Mann,-tho~lg1t Hot bigher. As to theIr Olll,lj 11l·(!ti.'S8illfj to be Buddliists it is again one or those pions fitlsellOods of the pwll'is, which ll:wc become uf .late too ~lHlllerolls. nIH! IllllCh too trallsparclIt to be senollsly notlcel\. Is It bccallsc they holl! in trllc vene­ration tlte oldest philosophy in the worll!-the VEDAi')

frO!ll whi?h Moth~r. Somce have sprung all the other pllllosopltlc allll relIgIOUS SYStCIIIS now lmown, tlw,t their views are misrepresented n:-nd traduccI! ? Or is the I~lct uf being a Buddhist, incompatible with sllch:t respect fur the oldest scriptures of tlte civili7.cll world, in the Opillioll of the trnth-Im'ing pad"i,,! Very little blillllcil as to the present defects of model'Jl Bllddhi~l1l, they holll bnt to the I)rilllit.ire teacltilltr!'l of Gautallla Butldlt;· they v , . "take refuge" but in His ~Wisdulll alune, antI leave the lllOdel'll innovatiolls tu take care of theIJl!'lelves. Evell I'm the latter tltey fint! a l'HIfliciCllt excuse in the fact, thnt Hearly all such iUllovationR, 1l0W appearillg like all ugly lOCal' on the fail' lace of Huddhislll, hare beell forcel! It]Jon it by flges of persecution. For, it is again to that faHatical Rpirit of prosclytism of Brahman, 1\\l1ssal­llUtll and Christian priests that the Sinhalese Buddhism owes Illost uf its 1I1lseclIlly blemishes. Leave the religioll of eve!'y nation alone, do not interfere with it, alII! sooner O!' later tllrO\wh tile exertiolls and adivity of its OWll reformers it will reCOVl:r its pristine jlmity. The law of erery civilized nation forbids forcible ingress to one IHan illto the house of :mother, awl Rim:e allY attack upun HllIl slallder of the dUlllCstic atElirs of a per:illll is pl1llished hy that I:tll', we really cannot sce why the religion of a wl101e Ilation sllOnld Hot have the sallle privilege, or filld it.self exelllpt from tllC sallle provision. l,et the pwll'i.s cease abusing' every otller religiun but their 0\\11; let thelll leave the Theosophir,ts alone, allll they lllHy re~t assured that IlCither Buddhist nor any other" heath ell " or "infidel" of our f::lociety will eyer opell ltis lllouth ~.gaillst thelll.

CU10IllUO, Jnnc 22. ... " TIle Ol',.at'a of JlIlle 21, hall another letter attack.

iug Culullel Olcoa for Bradlallgh'~ }()lcr BV(Ol[Jclisls" palllpblet the Culomho 'l'beosopllical Society lIaS publishe(l in ~inhall~se, The native Cbristinll organ hatl 0110

more slanderuus article u pOll tho Theosuph ist~ i \l its series uf sCllrrilous attacks upon tbem last week, abollt sOlllething c\:;c alld the Clw1'ch ,11i""iOl/(/rll GlcC{ ne)' ill its issllc of June has all page (iii the following para· graph whose closillg sClltcnce is full of that odilllll theolo­!}icllln ",h ich will recede before no lie if it can but brand its ellell1ies.

"Ccyl"lI,~-The 0l'po~ition of the J3n(I,lhi~tH \,;,8 becn lIlore nc!i1'c than ill fortllel' Jear~, theil' zeal h,wing been pl'o\'oketl by the Yi~it to C:eylon of two pel'~Oll8 fl'ol\l Amel'ica calliJlg thl!llIRch'e~ Th('o­sophiHt.s, who pllblicly al'ol\'c(1 their uelief ill j;uddhiHllI, pntvUHCti it:-J cerclllollie~, fratcl'Iliseti with its pliestH, allt! accepted the worship of it~ (lcI'otcc8 ... ; the mule was yehelllently abused, allli even pub­lidy kivkcti in the (own of Kanrly (! !) ...... ... f::luch is the upening sentence of a letter just receivcl1 11.t 0\11' Head-lllmrters at Bombay, as if in answer to the preceding paragraph.

IVe have been ta\1ght to expect almost D.uj'thi ng in tbo sbape of sla.nder invented agaillst us when cmanatillg from our clerical ellcmies. Bllt tbis clos­ing atlirlllation crosses the boundary of even the most impermissible barl/aced, FALslmooDs'! We have heen vio­lentlyassaulted in a public Lectu!e-Room, with hisses, groans and in,;ults while Col. Olcott was delivering a lectlll'e at Kandy wllich is printed and has not one objec­tionable word in it. The distlll'bing element was composed of about a dozen of native Christians wbo were incited to do so by their IJnclris. The lecturer was c1mllellgel! to lll'ove that ,the Bible cOlltn,ined one word which was not

true, ~ He accepted, alll! [lroceedell 011 tbe following day to a puhlic debate with the Illis,;ionarie,;. Not one of them callie out, not avoico was beanl ill reply to CuI. Oleot t's i 11\' i tatioll to tIle dl,full del'S nof of CIU'i"t i((11 itg hI! t of the divine origin of the Bible-tu come out amI answer. When was "the Bible "'ickl,d"? If the elegant term is used in a figmatiYe selliie, thclI does it apply I~lr lIlore t.o the Heverond Jate Hm'ism's of tllC Bible in Englaml who kicl.:ed UHt, indcel! the most vital parts of the New Tesbullent snch as the closing 12 vei'ses of CII:J.,p. XVI. in l\\alk, for instance, than it does to u,; who simply reject the Bible. A1I11 these Missionariescallillgtheulseh'es Chl'ist h1ll8! They who neither hold to tIle l\losaic Law, which com­mands tlmt they shall" /lot l)ear false witncss," HOl' to that of Christ wbo says-" Thun shalt 1Iot furswear thysplf." For the t/'lll! I;)"uwer,; uf Christ \\'e ha\'e amI always hall a real respect; for such II/It i- C/I/'i"t i({11 false witllesse; we publicly c01lfess the greatest cUlltelllpt. There are missiollaries whulll, --bowcyer widely opposed are their views to oms-we profoulldly respect :tlld sillcerely admirc. Such is tlte Rev. 1\Ir. BOlyell, the Alllcricall Wesleyan Editor of tllC lJvmlllly Gllarrliu.lI, who is alike beloved by he:Lthell amI Christinns, HIli! whuse pril'ate life i::l nn examplar of all virtncs. But sllch l1lissiollaries nrc an illfillitessimal ll1illority, while t.he mH:iori ty is llO hetter than speculators in COil verts on that Exchange Market known as Proselytizillg Chris­temlom: where each ]If{(!ri seeks to olltvie his lIeighbonr as a sharehulder of " sUllls", !lot for the sake of those sO\1ls, least tllan :111 for tlJat of Christ,-lmt silllply with Ull

eye tu hllsiness ; to the effect slIch Jlullliual conversions will have un those silllple-millde,l suppurters of theirs ill Ellrupe or America whu are expectetl to r0pleuish the Mission FlInd.

Now these Prutestant l'nd"i" re:J!ly oblige llS hy 1'1lUwing tbe worlll how 'VC}'y illl]lurtant., llny dangerolls, for them we nre, Hilt WIJ<lt nils tlll'sC jlom III e'll , that they ~honhl so l'llsh to their own deslmctioll at Ceyloll ? Indeed, they Citll nel'er be cOlllpared for one 1ll0111Cllt, with their Human Catholic rivals, eiLher for tact, discretioll or diplo­macy, HIIiI the grollnd they lost, will be snatched ullder their very Iloses by that ellt'lllY, l\ltless the}' pay more attelltion to thei r own instead of other people's busillcss. The Catholic clergy feel their pOlVer and therefore, do tlley le[tVe us qniet. It is 1I1uSt elll'iOllS t.o Hee llien who claim to Itaye (livi1lC trnth alltl dieille prutection fur them trembling so before olle su:itary mall who has Ileither­as they say: AntI CHn diville tmth be helped by tlleir llsing the most illlproper lallguage alld lettillg their tUllglle;J loose like n paek of nslll'r-WOlllell jealous of their lIeighbo\ll"~ Sllcce!'s? In regard to the TI18osopbists tlleir lllotto has become Palll's sillcerc confession ill RVlJi«(}18 (III,7) "For, if the truth of Gotl hath lIlore abOlllllkl1 tlu'ulI!J1t my lie \lnto his glory; wIly yet HIll

I algu judged as n sinllt't'''? They follow ouly those of the preecpts of the Bible which Rnit their tastes and purposes; but rarely if ever, allY of the really snblillle precepts frOlll the SerllIon 011 the MUllllt, leust of all that of appearillg as "peacelIlakers" being "lllerciful and meek" or finding thelllselves "blessed" by being reviled amI perse­cntc(1 by llIen. Bllt, they will call their brothers" Haka," or loul, and are ever ready to follow literally that otller cOl11mHIHI of rather a 1J1lestionahle Illomlity in Lul.:e (XX VI, :lG) whicll orders that-I< Hc that hath no sword, let him sell his garlllent and btly one." ... " Q'ICJn Dw~ t'ltlt pe/'de}'f, lJl'ins dcmel/tot"-oh, Church Ivo militant 1 Let them bear ill mind, that so long as we are law-abid. ing ant! creato llO distnrbance, \\'0 have as gooll a right to the protection of the GoVel'lllllellt that gives \\s shelter as they hn\'c, most of whom are as ourselves Ameri· C[lllS. We preach Buddhism with Bllddhist,,; let the missiullaries preach Christianity with the Chl'istiall~­who arc more in Heed of it than the heathcn are, n,nd we will have nothing to say.

~ M,t"ame II, P. Dla l'atsky, CorrcsponJillg' SJcrctal·.l' of I ho Parent :Soviety, left fur ~il1da, OIl the 22ml of Jllly. All private correHpollJcllce ShOllltl ue :\\hll'es~ed to her until fUl'thel' noticQ at that pl~ce.

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